Male engineering student explains why his female classmates are not his equals

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9. Engineering was definitely a boy's club in the 'seventies.

Family expectations were that I'd be an engineer like my grandfather, not an artist with day jobs like my parents, so I started college as an engineering major. From what I observed, the handful of women who were engineering majors had to be tough.

I didn't feel accepted by that culture either so I changed my major to biology after two years, specifically evolutionary biology, which practically speaking was very similar to my dad's fine arts degree in its utility.

My wife has always competed on the same playing fields as the good old boys and has crashed against glass ceilings several times in her career.

Any equality women now enjoy in the engineering field was hard won.