Women in engineering - an interesting article suggested by Brian Bailey.

The first issue of CONNECTS (a resource for MEP engineers & contractors produced by Trimble) contains an interesting article on issues facing women in engineering.  The article outlines some of the reasons why women may not be attracted to careers in engineering, as well as some of the issues (and discrimination) faced by women who do work in the field.  The article includes results from a survey of female engineers via CV-Librarywhich found some rather disturbing figures, including:

• ~ 73% of female engineers believe that there is a problem with gender discrimination in the sector;

• ~63% of female engineers feel that they had been discrimated against with regards to job opportunities, and

• ~68% believe that men in the engineering industry actually encourage this discrimination.

For more information, the issue can be downloaded (after free registration) from here.