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Re: female engineers
I can only imagine that the reasons are similar to those in sectors such as nursing and primary school teaching, which are overwhelmingly female.
I believe my dad's team at Welsh Water (fixing treatment works etc.) have a female member now, and she's just as good as anyone else, but due to being one of the first is involved in a lot of Welsh Water's publicity.
Is there an easy way to reach a sensible balance in industry? Probably not. What's needed is research to find out why so many girls don't take IT/engineering career paths, and why so many boys don't go in for primary education/nursing.
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