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NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: amyk on December 25, 2020, 10:16:38 pm ---Most of the "prominent" ones are actually not that great... they are just prominent.

The truly competent ones you don't hear about, because they blend in with the men. We are in the minority, but I am fine with that.

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More like content about engineering in detail is just not that popular among the general public. Guys making that sort of content face the exact same problem.

Of which, some notable examples (in the maker community) of women in engineering who have way above average skills are Fran Blanche, Jeri Ellsworth, Kitty Yeung, Micah Elizabeth Scott, Quinn Dunki, Sarah Petkus, and Xyla Foxlin. None of them are popular compared to the more "mainstream" women in engineering I listed earlier, blame (most of) the general public not being smart enough or interested enough to go that far into the technical topics.

--- Quote from: bob91343 on December 25, 2020, 10:27:37 pm ---Look at music.  While there are many woman musicians playing every instrument, there is definitely skew.  Way out of proportion more women are singers rather than instrumentalists.
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Probably has something to do with how the female voice is "more pleasant".
mc172:
Jog on with this women in engineering bollocks. Most of the time it's just a ploy to get desperate men aroused and therefore spend money by showing some mundane bullshit whilst wearing next to nothing like that Naomi whatever she's called.
coppice:

--- Quote from: bob91343 on December 25, 2020, 10:27:37 pm ---Look at music.  While there are many woman musicians playing every instrument, there is definitely skew.  Way out of proportion more women are singers rather than instrumentalists.  Very few play the typical male instruments like saxophone and trumpet and, somewhat, double bass and trombone.  They more often play violin or flute or harp or piano.  I don't know why this is, but it seems to be so.

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It might be that women don't like the life of a touring band. Some of the most famous pop recordings from the 1950s until today have female session musicians playing things like bass and saxophone on them, but unless they do something more prominent, like producing teaching materials, you seldom hear their names.

Try looking at rock bands in Japan today. A lot are half female or all female, and many avoid the trap of feeling the need to look tough and masculine to be accepted playing hard rock. That might suggest that culture is a big factor.
coppice:

--- Quote from: amyk on December 25, 2020, 10:16:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on December 25, 2020, 02:38:34 pm ---I suspect a lot of girls think "tech stuff is for guys", although that's changing now that there are so many prominent women in tech out there. (A few examples: April Wilkerson, Jennelle Eliana, Naomi Wu, Simone Giertz)

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Most of the "prominent" ones are actually not that great... they are just prominent.

The truly competent ones you don't hear about, because they blend in with the men. We are in the minority, but I am fine with that.

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Going deep doesn't pay. If you look at some prominent channels on YouTube, like EEVBlog and The Signal Path, they have a mix of lightweight and heavyweight videos. Some really quite heavy in the case of The Signal Path. They all note a direct relationship between the depth of their videos and the income they generate. Going deep doesn't pay. Of course many presenters aren't really capable of going deep, but keeping the videos accessible tells you nothing about the presenter's capabilities.

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: mc172 on December 26, 2020, 12:34:25 am ---Jog on with this women in engineering bollocks. Most of the time it's just a ploy to get desperate men aroused and therefore spend money by showing some mundane bullshit whilst wearing next to nothing like that Naomi whatever she's called.

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Hardly "most of the time". The only other women in the maker community (that I'm aware of) who "show off" their appearance to an "excessive" degree are Sarah Petkus and Xyla Foxlin, and neither do it anywhere as often as Naomi Wu does. All the rest are pretty modest.

Keep in mind the prominent mainstream makers do something very important to the maker community - "pull in" new members. For example, I don't think the Ender 3 would be anywhere as popular as it is now if it weren't for Naomi working in marketing for Creality. Now she's testing and developing a printer optimized for automated production of items with minimal manual intervention - she has some real engineering skills once you get past the "stripper" appearance.
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