My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer

Re:My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer by jarek on Sunday January 16, 2011 @11:34PM (#2111209)

Yes and no. In Canada, software engineering is an accredited, 'professional' program and discipline; that doesn't seem to have helped gender ratios within software much for now, but nevertheless it's outpaced by stereotypically dirty and male disciplines like civil and chemical engineering.

Sample from one institution: http://web.archive.org/web/20080611075012/http://www.eng.uwa.... Class sizes are around 80-100 except for environmental and geological which are half to third of that.

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Re:My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer by wyclif on Sunday January 16, 2011 @11:44PM (#2111230)

stereotypically dirty and male disciplines like civil and chemical engineering

I spent 10 years as a land surveyor and GIS cartographer, and during that entire time I met one (!) woman surveyor. CE is notorious for this.

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Re:My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer by neutronicus on Monday January 17, 2011 @09:22AM (#2112200)

At my school civil and environmental engineering were in one department, and most of the girls where there for the "environmental" half - or so my CEE friends said, anyways.

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Re:My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer by zb on Monday January 17, 2011 @01:29PM (#2112935)

OK, but that link still shows Software and Computer engineering ahead of Mechanical and Electrical engineering.

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Re:My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer by jarek on Monday January 17, 2011 @02:01PM (#2113021)

True. Clearly professionalization is not the only required step, but the natural experiment doesn't tell you it's not required — hence my "yes and no" reply.

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