Emily Warren Roebling Case Study

One of the greatest accomplishments in United States history is perhaps one of the oldest bridges built in Brooklyn known as the Brooklyn Bridge completed on May 24, 1883, in New York City. The bridge connects to Manhattan and Brooklyn and part of the project may never have been completed without the assistance of no other than Emily Warren Roebling. Although Females are often recognized with stereotypes because of past history misrepresentation of females, Roebling helps motivate others to spread the word of knowledge to help females represent their strengths in society. Emily Warren Roebling is an idol to many female civil engineers and to all females because she had not conformed to the stereotypical lifestyle of women when women are bearing children and facing motherhood. However, between the 1860s and 1900s was the founding of The National Women’s Rights Convention. Yet, women’s lives were tied to the house and children, they had little opportunity for outside contact and most of all, many women did not feel they had any sort of self-fulfillment. Roebling brings inspiration to many women today, as women still struggle to dominate and hold a position in the engineering world. According to Nicholas St. Fleur from Southern California Public Radio (2014), “women face obstacles such as the glass ceiling, a lack …show more content…
It involves math and sciences yet engineering takes creativity and passion. Civil engineering brings a huge impact on just about everything in the world today and transportation is what causes the world to stay connected and expand technology in an advanced type of way. In addition, to being a woman and first generation to go to college in my family makes me want to make my family proud and show myself and others that I can get