As an aspiring engineer in the early 1970s, Lynne Kiorpes was easy to spot in her undergraduate classes. Among a sea of men, she and a handful of other women made easy targets for a particular professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. On the first day of class, “he looked around and said ‘I see women in the classroom. I don’t believe women have any business in engineering, and I’m going to personally see to it that you all fail’.
He wasn’t bluffing. All but one of the women in the class ultimately left engineering; Kiorpes went on to major in psychology.
The gender gap in science, engineering, and tech fields. (Their infographic is awesome – and interactive. Click on it.)
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