The ratio matters little, but the women who want to work in the field shouldn't be hassled about it or because of it, nor told that "its not a job for women".
More than half of the respondents said they either had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships or knew another woman who had a negative experience
That was true for me when I was doing internships out of college.
such as being subjected to gender-biased interview questions and inappropriate remarks, or observing a noticeable lack of diversity
See right there you have poisoned the results by mixing issues that are actually real problems (inappropriate remarks) with things that are possi
He would probably have laughed even if another man said that. Seriously, from intern to engineer in five years?
> or observing a noticeable lack of diversity when they interacted with company representatives during the interview process.
Do male nurses have the same complaints too?
Or female fire fighters?
Or female construction workers?
What makes programming so special that we "must" have a 50/50 ratio ?
If companies are no longer hiring on merit but based on gender then that is just reverse discrimination.
Simply seeing the title, I knew it was msmash.
More than half of the respondents said they either had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships or knew another woman who had a negative experience
That was true for me when I was doing internships out of college.
such as being subjected to gender-biased interview questions and inappropriate remarks, or observing a noticeable lack of diversity
See right there you have poisoned the results by mixing issues that are actually real problems (inappropriate remarks) with things that are possi