Originally Posted by
Mr IGH
After 3 decades of promotion/incentives why are only 5% of practicing engineers of the female persuasion? Why is it that there's almost no women mechanics? Caterpillar has almost no woman welders despite all the incentives to hiring them.
PC's ugly hand has corrupted these conversation, we're expected to pretend men and women are the same.
Maybe because they are smarter than the men who stay in engineering and see their non-engineering peers get better paying jobs.
I like engineering (I'm not an engineer, but a technician), and I like welding (and sometimes do it professionally). I would not choose welding as a career if I could find better options. A women blue collar worker is going to have to deal with a very high ******* quotient in the trades. As a male, I see sexism, I'm sure it is more obvious to the women. And people wonder why there aren't more women in certain fields.
And to those who say it is hardwired, I don't see too many males doing crochet or sewing. Before automation, the ladies were making lace, and probably still are somewhere on the globe. You see a lot of women in electronics assembly. They are just as hard-wired for dexterity as anyone else.