re: Share of female bachelor's degrees by major 1971 to 2017

No surprise. Women just typically aren’t very good at engineering. Not all mind you, I work with a couple women who are excellent engineers, but they are very matter-of-fact and don’t seem to give a frick about the silly things most women do.

The others though? They love bitching about the way things SHOULD be done or how nobody does things correctly, but refuse to be a part of any solution or improvement if it requires them doing an ounce of extra work.

In fact, I’ve frequently noticed that whenever there is an unexpected problem (not uncommon in defense industry engineering) and it requires a late night/weekend working session, you will rarely if ever find women willing to roll up their sleeves and work through the issue. It’s always a shrug, some excuse (“I’m meeting my college besty for drinks tonight”) and a cheerful “good luck” as they’re heading out the door.

Nothing pisses me off more than working 18 hour days for weeks on end with other male engineers and then coming in to some slick video posted on our company website about how women are “revolutionizing” STEM.