<p>My floormate (a female engineer) wants me to tell you to go for it. :)</p>
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I refuse to date engineers.
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<p>Thanks for the vote of confidence! :-p</p>
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3:1 in my aerospace classes at ucsd
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<p>Holy crap! There are around 45 juniors in AA department here in UW, but there are only like 6 girls... That's almost 8:1 ratio. 3:1 is freakin' awesome.</p>
<p>Well, girls drop out of engineering at a higher rate, so the freshman classes have higher percentages of females than the advanced ones.</p>
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And, one more suggestion -- perhaps consider civil engineering. Municpalities and States hire civil engineers to work on city planning, roads, water plants, environmental remediation sites, etc. Lots of time these government jobs have more regular schedules and better benefits than those of industry and consulting engineering firms.
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<p>My son, an EE major, tells me that most of the female engineering majors at his school are in civil.</p>
<p>I'm in a bubble of a college (its all engineering), where they are doing well and have it to 45% female. </p>
<p>God this thing called the real world is going to be different...</p>
<p>Despite the fact that most of the female engineering majors are civil, if you go on to graduate school in structural, the numbers drop again anyhow... Out of sixty new masters students in structural eng at UIUC last year, only six of us were women. (That would be.... TEN to one. Oof!)</p>
<p>Anyhoo... FYI, we're primarily unconcerned that engineering will make us "unmarriable"... My female engineer friends and I have never really had any difficulties getting ourselves into long-term relationships. ;) My civ eng trio posse of women from my undergrad years used to sit around at coffeehouses and lament the fact that we'd started out determined to be career women and not fool around with serious boyfriends and such, and somehow we'd ended up with our silly boys. We're still dating the same guys, and one of us is married now. So much for being cold-hearted, career-minded ice queens!</p>
<p>The primary concern that most of us have is having time for a family, thankyouverymuch! =) I think that's what the OP is asking about.</p>
<p>Actually, that would be 9:1. :)</p>
<p>//aibarr's bridge collapses due to math error</p>
<p>;) Sorry 'bout that.</p>
<p>For some interesting statistics on women in engineering go to:</p>
<p>This is from the Americal Society for Engineering Education.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link.</p>
<p>But they collapsed Eng Science with Eng Physics -- they are quite different, I think.</p>