The Importance Of Women In Engineering

At a young age, most children are asked what they want to be when they grow up. There are the occasional responses such as doctor, lawyer, astronaut, or even a princess. But there are the few children who don’t have an answer, but know they want to change the world. Changing the world, may be a high goal to reach, but it brings out a workforce that most people do not think about. Having the opportunity to make a difference, while working hard and pushing yourself to go further can be resolved if more people thought about taking on the career path of becoming an engineer. Not only do we need more people to have the courage to take on such a rigorous task, we need more women to take on this task as well.
Engineering today, is male dominated and needs more female role models. Being an engineer has its beneficial factors such as having the option of choosing your work environment, taking on the different options that are available in the …show more content…
that is why most women feel uncomfortable or unable to help in the technical industry. In order to attract more women and allow them to move from the idea that they are not worth being in such is rigorous field is to get rid of the work sexism that takes place at most jobs today. Allowing women to have an opportunity to gain a higher status, flexible work schedules, and a female support system. According to an article on the Washington Post, Nadya Fouad, a professor did a psychology research study that resulted in the fact that women less likely wanted to work in an environment that required long work hours for unrelated work reasons.Which resulted in women taking on the stereotypical idea that women are better off staying home to take care of their children. It 's not that women don 't want to stay home with their children. it’s that they would rather have a stable job that treats them right and then come home knowing she has supported her