Re:Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
by rbanffy on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:41PM
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When I graduated (EE, 1992), in my class there were about five women. Industrial engineering had a higher proportion, about 10%.
In the last few years, according to LinkedIn at least - and my admittedly unscientific counting, it seems 50/50.
This makes me much happier.
Certainly true. Though I will say that a female engineering friend of mine--upon seeing A Year in Development (linked elsewhere on thread) created a few years later about, well, a year in development at DG--had the immediate reaction "Look at all the women!" But maybe that's more a statement about how things haven't gotten a lot better. (And many of the women, in my experience, were in project management and engineering-adjacent roles.)