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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the boys in robotics seem to have much poorer social skills (and make inappropriate sexist jokes around girls-including my dd)  than my dd athlete male friends...so maybe this is what females mean by not being accepted around male engineering students?[/quote]

Absolutely this is the reality in high school and maybe in younger grades too. Some engineering (and physics let me not start there) classes are difficult for females to survive socially. Academically the women kick ass! This is the current reality. [/quote]

There have been some really socially inappropriate things said and my dd reported it but apparently this kid has an iep for emotional issues so he has the right to make sexist derogatory comments per the school...tbh most of the girls are also on the spectrum as well in this group and a minority of the girls are social-so they will sink or swim[/quote]

Most of the female engineering students are on the spectrum? I have a female freshman and this is not her experience. Do you have data to support this?[/quote]

Yeah, that is total BS!  My daughter is an engineer major and that's definately not the case.  
She's about as far from that description as possible and so are most of her friends[/quote]

OK well thats great to know, my DD wants to study engineering and in her ECs there is only one girl who is social, the other ones are definitely not (with her or anyone else), she doesn't mind as her friend group is not her EC group. I was concerned about making friends down the line in college.  [/quote]

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