“Instead of reciting a laundry list of challenges preventing young women from pursuing engineering, I decided to try to figure out what women who did enter engineering have in common. I reached out to a handful of other female engineers in my life whom I respect to see if I could find any similarities in our upbringing that played a key role in leading us to careers in engineering. Here are 5 commonalities I found…
- Expose Her to Engineers
- Make Math a ‘Girl’ Thing
- A Lack-Luster Social Life Never Hurts
- Teach Her to Confidently be Herself
- Tell Her She Can Do It” …. Engineer Lindsey McCarty
— UN SD Goal 5 “Gender Equality”; Fundamental Human Need for “Participation” and “Creation”