<p>I would like the opinion of women who are engineers, thru your career, have you felt your gender was a factor in job advancement/obtaining employment?</p>
<p>If so how did you deal with it?</p>
<p>I got my master’s degree in engineering back in 1986. I have experienced no problems with my gender, except for one draftsman who was a chauvinist and frequently made insulting remarks about women. That was at my first job - if I had it to do over again, I would complain, but I was young!</p>
<p>The hardest part is that I don’t come across too many other female structural engineers. When I attend professional association meetings, I am usually one of three (at most) out of a large roomful.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback.</p>
<p>My D is having a difficult time even getting interviewed, the one face to face the person was obnoxious, sexist, and D said even offered a position would decline. she met some borish male engineering profs/fellow students and made me wonder if it is group think among the male engineers and a change in her choice of career is needed. Fellow male students with similar GPA’s have found employment, the other female she is friends with has not.</p>
<p>Broadened her search to entire country, nothing but an odd phone interview but that is all.</p>
<p>At this point, honestly she is regretting ever becoming an engineer, feels she will never be hired. I can’t blame her. I would never even entertain the thought of Masters debt for her.
She can’t even get interest from entry level anything.
She has put her name into be a nanny, great use of an engineering degree. </p>
<p>Yes Im pretty annoyed</p>
<p>What type of engineering is she into? </p>
<p>She may have more luck with larger companies that look for diversity. I know IBM, Microsoft, Google, etc actively encourage female engineers to apply (even if she isn’t into tech, these companies don’t only look for software engineers).</p>
<p>Wow, I haven’t run into any profs or students like that. That’s too bad!</p>
<p>there are more female interns are my company, ratio-wise, so I actually think females have an easier time getting jobs…</p>
<p>I actually think being a female is an advantage in employment in the engineering field. I worked for a major oil company in the past. One year, our refinery hired 10 new graduate process engineers, 5 are male and 5 are female. There were a lot more male engineering students than female engineering students. That is what I observe in other big companies as well.</p>
<p>No, DD is having no problem being a “girl engineer”. But it’s not just a boy or girl thing. It’s also GPA and past work experience thing.</p>