female engineer - chances?

Well, I’m not a feminist, I’m a male engineer in a male dominated field.

But I’ll say this
Fifty percent (or more, actually) of the world’s best potential engineers are female. I want the best engineers possible working and productive. I don’t want the best engineers available from the 46% (or whatever) that happen to be male. That only gives me half of the best. Bah to that.