By Alex Hsain
I’ve heard it all before. “You’re going into engineering because you have a better chance of getting a job as a woman” or “you won’t have to try as hard” or “you’d be good for fitting a company’s quota.” What these egregious commentators fail to notice is the underlying sexism embedded into these passing judgments. The dominating perception of women’s initiative of going into STEM careers creates an unnecessary dichotomy between male and female engineers. Perhaps a radical notion – but what happened to people going into engineering because, oh I don’t know, they actually enjoy math and science? The worldview: men go into engineering because they enjoy it, women go into engineering because they have a better chance of hitting the jackpot.
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