<p>40%??? Wow…</p>
<p>I think percentage of girls within CS department at my school is close to 12%.</p>
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<p>In electrical engineering in my undergrad in my year, it was less than 10% if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>heres a cool website </p>
<p>[Women</a> in Engineering](<a href=“Women in Engineering at the University of Waterloo | Women in Engineering | University of Waterloo”>Women in Engineering at the University of Waterloo | Women in Engineering | University of Waterloo)</p>
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i havn’t decided anything. I was making a statement about female engineers only from my observation.</p>
<p>The proportion of women to men in a particular branch of a schools engineering school is often affected by the percentage of old fart professors, who refuse to acknowledge existence of any student that does not look like them. Older engineering school/state flag ships with strong tenure programs are the worst for this. Newer Engineering schools attract more varied student bodies - new schools tend to have fewer old white farts who see themselves are guardians of their domain.</p>
<p>hey hey so as a female ME major starting college next year, i dont consider myself ugly, but i dont consider myself hot either. Sure hope its easier to get a boyfriend in college than it is in high school (this coming from a girl who has never dated before).:)</p>
<p>As long as you are above the 5% percentile in looks you can get a bf easily. Just don’t expect prince charming.</p>
<p>as long you’re not extremely obese the chances of you getting a b/f is exceeding high.</p>
<p>haha:) im gonna get in shape this summer (or so i keep telling myself).</p>
<p>Gosh. Y’all are just lifting our spirits… If we’re women engineers and have a boyfriend, then it’s simply because we’re not hideously ugly or obese, and if we DON’T have a boyfriend, then we can reasonably conclude that we ARE hideously ugly and obese!</p>
<p>You boys want a shovel? It’ll be faster! ;)</p>
<p>The two reasons women do not have boyfriends:
- Do not want one.
- Hideously ugly (including obesity).</p>
<p>Nothing more or less, the male mind is not difficult to decode.</p>
<p>Who says engineering girls are below average in looks? Check this out: </p>
<p>As geeks become chic in all levels of society, an unlikely subset is starting to roar. Meet the Nerd Girls: they’re smart, they’re techie and they’re hot.</p>
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<p>I’m repulsively girly and care very much about my looks. I think that’s an incorrect stereotype . I haven’t met an “ugly” one yet, but maybe my NYC location has something to do with our obsession with appearance.</p>
<p>That said, I also think because I am a girl and a lean on the girly side, I’m not taken as seriously until I prove myself.</p>
<p>If anything, I think it’s the opposite. Most of the males in my classes are… aesthetically challenged.</p>
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<p>1.
Chem/bio engineering degrees segue nicely into careers in medicine. I imagine (I say imagine because I have no evidence/proof of this) that a lot of women in engineering are studying it for the “prestige” of the degree and really have no desires to work an engineering job (because of nerds/math/sexism/ w/e). I am probably full of ****, but I’m guessing that the percentage of female engineering graduates going into non-engineering fields is much higher than for the guys.</p>
<p>2.
Chem/bio engineering is a little lighter on the mathematics than, say, physics/ee/cs.</p>
<p>I know a lot more attractive female engineering students than ones that are not.</p>
<p>I’m a girl at my engineering school who’s majoring in nuclear engineering. Our department is actually starting to get a lot more females. I’m pretty girly and am a cheerleader here also. I do agree you see quite a bit of girls who don’t care about their looks, but I’m friends with a ton of girls who are pretty and try. I don’t think its fair to make such a generalization at some schools. My university is only ~23% female.</p>
<p>thanks silence! now not only does being a female engineer mean i’m ugly, but also bad at math?</p>
<h1>2 - wrong. BME requires just as much math as ME, CE, etc. CS isn’t even considered engineering at a lot of schools.</h1>
<p>It’d be nice if they had an all girls engineering school. But then, I guess they’d have all of 30 students.</p>
<p>Or maybe one already exists and I’m just too lazy to make use of Google.</p>
<p>[Smith</a> College: Picker Engineering Program](<a href=“http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Engin/index.php]Smith”>http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Engin/index.php)</p>
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<p>Okay, #1 was a little insulting. What I should have emphasized was that a lot of smart women are using the prestige of the engineering degree to get them get their foot into the door for more rewarding jobs (medicine, law, etc.). A bachelors in bioengineering segues nicely into medical school. I bet women don’t get very excited at working with a bunch of (possibly sexist 
) nerds all day at an engineering job, and would rather work in medicine where they could get paid more, work with more socially normal people, and help people directly with their line of work. </p>
<h1>2 - wrong. BME requires just as much math as ME, CE, etc. CS isn’t even considered engineering at a lot of schools.
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<p>Yikes, I guess women engineers are bad at reading as well (JUST KIDDING !!!). I said that bio/chem engineering is a little lighter on the mathematics than phys/ee/cs. Yeah, I realize that CS isn’t considered engineering at some schools, but my point was that you see fewer women in the technical programs that are a little more mathematically heavy. I don’t know about your claim (bio vs. me, ce). You are probably right.</p>