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Ah, but you're talking about engineers, who aren't normal people. Once you cross over into the PHB realm, you find many people who see everything as a zero-sum game, i.e...
Numbers would be good. I tried to look them up on the census site, but couldn't figure out haw to navigate the thing well enough.
When I was an under grad (early '70s), female EEs were certainly under 1% of my graduating clbutt. In fact I don't remember any in my clbutt* of over 400. At my POE we seem to have about 10% female population (though it is a population with an intentionally high female population).
* There were a few in other clbuttes though. I graduated high school with one but she graduated before me and another was a lab partner in several courses, but also a year ahead. I'm sure there were others, but they don't stand out in my memory.
...or simply ignore contrary evidence. PC dictates that "fair" == "equal". Though even the NYT has recently published headlines declaring that men and women are different. Wow that's news! ;-)
Seperated twins are a good argument. Not perfect, but interesting.
Please explain. Most of the compebreastion I've seen among the engineering types (no comment on PHBs;-) here is additive rather than subtractive. In 30+ years I've never been in a situation where there was more than one individual in a group that wasn't on the "same page" (such messes are eventually cleaned up).
-- Keith
Yeah. I made an attempt to get more information yesterday, and found several links to NSF-funded reports that sounded promising, but they were...
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