Re: not a new subject - women in electronics and computing?

John Larkin wrote:

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:31:07 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:29:58 +0000, poppy.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Adrian Tuddenham) wrote:

Lyn <sensecam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been reading and occasionally contributing to sci.electronics for
about 13 years.

I'm still wondering why there are not that many women attracted to
careers to electronics/computing.
I also wonder do any women do electronics/ computing for fun, i.e. a
hobby?


Just a footnote:

Many women have work or a hobby which, to my mind, qualifies them as
engineers - dressmaking.

Some of them just follow a published pattern, but I have met so many
others who really know their subject and would be regarded as competent
design engineers in any other discipline. They don't they don't call
themselves engineers, they don't think of themselves as engineers; but
they think like engineers, they are as skilled as engineers and it is a
great pity they aren't recognised as engineers.


(I am surprised at the number of male electronics engineers, besides
myself, who enjoy dressmaking or other forms of sewing as a hobby)

I did that too. I used to make all my wife's party dresses... saves a
bundle of money.

Also made myself several sport coats.

...Jim Thompson

I've always been in awe of the abiliity to cut and stich flat fabric
to elegantly wrap a human body. I've also worked around sailmakers and
the guys who flame-cut shapes from steel plate and weld them into
ship's hulls, all equally impressive ways to make effective curves out
of *** stock.

A good seamstress will often assemble a dress inside out, and invert
it last thing. The ship-hull guys can't do that!


On the other hand, they don't have to stitch the sheetmetal together,
which can only be done inside out.


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