My High school Electronics class had one woman out of 40 students. My college graduating class had 400 EE's, three women. One of them was, shall we put it politely, not too interested in men, lowering the odds considerably for us guys. >Wouldn't an engineer analyze the problem and devise an appropriate solution? However, my Dance classes, Contra Dances, and other dance activites usually have 60% women. That is why EE's should learn to dance. Dancing, amazingly, can be quite mathematical at certain levels. An appropriate solution indeed! A common vocation is actually a big minus for a relationship. Working for the same employer as your spouse is a huge minus. Both of you can get laid off at the same time, and there is nothing to talk about but work at the dinner table. Working at the same small business is a disaster for marriages, because every strain is a strain both at work and at home and when the small business goes South, so does the marriage. So my advice: engineers should not marry with other engineers, IMHO. The trend is for more women to go into tech fields, if I am not mistaken, however we are a long way from 50-50. -- Lawrence Lile Robert Rolf Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 02/18/2004 10:00 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [OT:] Women in Engineering Wouldn't an engineer analyze the problem and devise an appropriate solution? What's wrong with hanging out where the Nurses or Teachers are? Better M/F ratio and YOU become the one being swarmed. Equally intelligent and equally good looking. Not that that should be a criteria since eventually she'll look like her mother, and when the lights are out, what does it matter? And nurses tend to be more 'caring' since it takes a certain kind of personality to pursue the profession. And your primarily conclusion is erroneous. They were all single at one time or other. Robert "Keith L. Kovala" wrote: > > Yeah, but when you are sitting in circuit theory and realize the one > woman (out of a class of 40) in the class is absent that day there is > definitely a need for more. Especially when the one female engineer is > swarmed to by the males so that even attempting to get to know them is > impossible! > > Girls want diamonds, I just want one good looking, single, female > engineer. Oh wait, they don't exist! > > klk > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: pic microcontroller discussion list > > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Jake Anderson > > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:02 AM > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > Subject: Re: ] Women in Engineering (was: Re: [PICLIST] [OT:] > > Removal of members from the list.) > > > > > > think you can generalise that to > > "ask any male if he would like to see more females" > > and still get 90% of the population ;-> > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: pic microcontroller discussion list > > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of > Randy Glenn > > Sent: > > Wednesday, February 18, 2004 7:55 PM > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > Subject: [OT:] Women in Engineering (was: Re: [PICLIST] [OT:] > > Removal of members from the list.) > > > > (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 > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three > > different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.