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Careers In Tech Still Dominated By Men {Switched.com}
May 17th 2008 7:07PM As a female with over 20 years in the electronics field - the tech side, not engineering - I can say there has been fewer than 10% female in any place I have worked, trained, or taken classes. I think it is not just a lack of encouragement in math and science, it is the lack of hand-on with screwdrivers and wrenches. How many girls learn how to FIX something? I have been to conferences about software, classes on troubleshooting a new system, and taught other troubleshooters from other departments in the corporation I work for and have been 1 of 50 or 1 in 100 female to male ratio. I know it isn't because our girls aren't smart - they don't have the exposure to the mechanical/electrical side and I agree with the dean in the article, they don't have the examples/role models.
As an answer to John, there is actually an incentive in Michigan for men to go into nursing - they automatically get in to the Clinical (in hospital) portion of the nursing program and get help paying for school as part of the Sex Equity Grant program.
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