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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many will say engineering. Rough road for a woman in the oversaturated male dominated industry. If it's not management diminishing your work, it would be the clients. Many days I ask myself why did I not peruse medical school. Ugh...   [/quote]
I have mixed feelings about this. I definitely had a rough start in a male dominated engineering career, and once I had kids the lack of flexibility was killing me. But my old boss retired and my new younger boss is definitely more flexible and doesn’t belittle my work. I make decent money and my job is stable. Maybe once all the old guys retire it won’t be so bad![/quote]

How old are the two of you?  Genuinely curious.

I graduated with an engineering degree in 1989, in aeronautical engineering and have worked in defense most of my career.  Rarely any women.  Sometimes it's easier to be the token than it is when there are a handful of tokens who feel like they are vying for the same one slot.  There's a lot of research out there on that, btw.  But I suppose I digress a bit.[/quote]

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