I don't have any statistics to back it up, but I think in the US, the
     ratio is closer to 5% women engineers.  Almost every engineer I know
     is male.  It's easy to get caught in the trap that engineers are all
     men, even though that obviously isn't true.


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Subject: Any female piclist members?
Author:  wterreb@PLESSEY.CO.ZA at internet
Date:    1/9/97 4:11 AM


Something has been bothering me for a long time now... I keep looking
at the names of people posting to this list to see if there are any
female members on this list, but so far I've not seen a single one.
Its just interesting that women don't seem to be interested in these
things, even though 10-20% of electronic engineers are female. That
means that we should have at least 50-100 piclist members.  What's
wrong here?  Has anybody got any theories about this pheonomena?

And if there are any female Piclist member reading this, please know
that I am VERY impressed. And please tell us that you are here!  :)

Rgds
Werner