If women are given equal treatment, education, opportunities, etc. as they grow up from day 1, would that balance the ratio of female engineers with males?
Honestly, I don't think so. With all the freedom and opportunity in the world, the differences in brain chemistry between genders will tend to favor particular career paths.
Preemptive disclaimer: I don't think that people should be shoehorned into a particular career because of their gender, nor do I think that equality between genders in terms of employment and pay is unworthy of effort. Just don't be shocked if that ratio never hits 50/50 because women with the opportunities still don't want to be engineers.
Even assuming that your uncited brain chemistry claim is true, I'm sure you'd agree that the balance is a very long way from 50/50 right now, and that it would be great if it could be improved :)
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If women are given equal treatment, education, opportunities, etc. as they grow up from day 1, would that balance the ratio of female engineers with males?
Honestly, I don't think so. With all the freedom and opportunity in the world, the differences in brain chemistry between genders will tend to favor particular career paths.
Preemptive disclaimer: I don't think that people should be shoehorned into a particular career because of their gender, nor do I think that equality between genders in terms of employment and pay is unworthy of effort. Just don't be shocked if that ratio never hits 50/50 because women with the opportunities still don't want to be engineers.
Even assuming that your uncited brain chemistry claim is true, I'm sure you'd agree that the balance is a very long way from 50/50 right now, and that it would be great if it could be improved :)