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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might want to ask recent grads.  I was an engineering graduate in the mid 80s.  I hope to god it's changed since then, because the misogynism ran deep.  Especially in the "hard core" disciplines.

I'm now in the defense industry.  Apparently a glutton for punishment.  [/quote]

Thank you. May I ask where you attended school - hopefully things have improved.[/quote]

Penn State[/quote]

Ditto for U of Md college park. 
The other students were ironically the ones that were rampantly sexist. I enjoyed my professors and classes in undergrad. Grad school not so muc that's where it really was awful. But the working world was the worst as the men seemed to unite to put the women down and label them useless whenever they could. I wasn't even allowed to work on a project that entailed subject matter that I had graduate degrees in - in favor of guys who needed special permission to graduate with low grades (i.e.: D's and C's). I got mostly A's and I was told that I had probably received those not because I was smart and worked hard but because I had 'sat in the front row wearing a short skirt'. Yeah - no. School was a picnic compared to work.

At least now they make you do an internship - so maybe you can choose law or medicine instead.

Maybe things have improved but I'm glad my own bright daughter does not want to do STEM (also - low pay for long hours)

OP I think things have improved - I hope - but I'd recommend that your DD get a PhD if she wants to be in STEM. It will go a lot better for her.[/quote]

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