Today, women can choose to train for any career in which they are interested. This was not always the case, as many of us know. Gender discrimination in most fields was real and in countless cases, officially sanctioned. Engineering is one of those fields that is still male-dominated, with women representing significantly less than half of the practitioners in the field. In fact, the percentage of women receiving B.S. degrees in the sciences didn’t even reach one percent until 1972. In this month’s enewsletter, we profile two pioneering women engineers: Edith Clarke and Mabel MacFerran Rockwell.
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