Women-friendly engineering program

[PamNY]

My information is decades out of date, but one of the worst experiences of my working life was in a company composed largely of engineers that was trying to be "friendly" to women. I'm not an engineer, but my work involved dealing exclusively with engineers, so is relevant.

It was a nightmare because one was expected to conform to this company's idea of what women should be like. It was like going back to the 1950s. At one point I actually begged them to tell me what I was supposed to pretend.

I have an acquaintance who teaches at a major university, and what I hear from her suggests that what I experienced could still be a problem for some women.