Though there are a far larger number of female engineers in the
Engineering faculty than I expected (at my school at least), there is
definitely a need for more. Some reasons why:

1. They are among the smartest people in the class. I'm not sure why,
exactly, this is, but it is true.
2. They are some of the most involved people in the program. The only
two candidates for Engineering Society President this year are female,
and our IEEE Student Branch chair two years running is female.
3. They tell some of the dirtiest jokes, and don't hate you (where "you"
is "me") for telling off-colour jokes. The difference between
Engineering and basically any other faculty on this is almost like night
and day. As an example: the cover of the Engineering student newspaper
at McMaster is adorned with a certain symbol which shall remain
nameless. About the only complaints I've ever heard are from Arts
students who have never actually read it.

(If they had, they'd be doing a lot more than complaining)
4. Ask most any male in an Engineering program if he'd like to see more
women in the class. Those who don't use the aforementioned answers will
have one decidedly more predictable :)

Do with these observations what you will... I'm too far behind in my EM
homework to analyze this stuff.

(apologies in advance to anyone who finds this heterocentric or sexist -
these are merely my observations)

-Randy Glenn
Computer Engineering and Management Year III, McMaster University

Keith Kovala wrote:

>>Make love, not war...  :-)
>>
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>
>In a field predominantly male, I'm not interested in this proposition.  GRiN.
>But I did find it humourous, but that might be the timing... short message
>after long diatribe or the fact that it's 5 am and don't need to be up at this
>hour.
>
>Why can't their be more good looking women in engineering... if nothing else
>it would make the scenery better and the work environment less testosterone
>filled.  Then we could make love and not war! GRiN
>
>Keith L. Kovala
>klk@renderedelement.com
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