jamcmullan (02/08/83)
"I'm also curious if young women are giving fields such as engineering more consideration than it has been given in the past." I have been working in one of the teaching buildings for engineers, at the University of Waterloo, since 1978. I can assure you that more young women at studying engineering. Women coming out of the classrooms used to be in ratios of 2:70 or so. Now, I am seeing women in ratios of more like 20:70 (purely subjective measurements). --Judy McMullan
roberta@bronze.UUCP (Roberta Taussig) (08/26/83)
Due to a series of apparently unrelated changes in organization and the normal nomadic restlessness of engineers, I find myself about to become a project leader of a design engineering team composed of myself and three other women. All the management structure above me is male, and the other project teams with which we will be working are almost exclusively male. We will have no authorization to add personnel for at least six months, so this situation will persist for at least that long. Technical abilities on the team range from good to outstanding, and we will be generating assemblers for microprocessors to support Tek's microprocessor development systems. We've been kidding around about establishing an outpost of "feminist engineering", but I'm wondering what, if any, will be the problems peculiar to our situation. Does anyone have any experience with this? Advice? Encouragement? Caveats? Roberta Taussig Tektronix Beaverton, Oregon ..!decvax!tektronix!tekmdp!roberta ..!zehntel!tektronix!tekmdp!roberta
heretyk@abnjh.UUCP (08/29/83)
It seems to me that most of the time that women are separtated (tokenized) into separate groups. Working in an all women group should be very positive in that you won't have to deal with the conditioning that we've been through ( i.e. let the boy win syndrome) and other roles. Make sure that your group doesn't receive more than your share of documentation and "support" work. Is your role of project leader a promotion? If so congratulations, if not congratulations past due. Shelley Heretyk