Opening Doors to Engineering

摘要

Women studying engineering before the 1970s were subject to many annoying assumptions: They were just looking for a husband. Their interest in engineering implied they were unattractive and unfeminine. They didn't deserve to take up a man's spot since they would simply get married and waste their education. And in any case, they wouldn't be any good at engineering. In Girls Coming to Tech! Amy Sue Bix offers a fascinating account of how women's enrollment in American undergraduate engineering programs gradually rose and of the many challenges women encountered as students and then professionals.