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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:50:15 +1100
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On 15/01/2025 7:03 am, brian wrote:
> In message <vm4rqp$29ao0$2@dont-email.me>, Bill Sloman 
> <bill.sloman@ieee.org> writes
>> I met quite a few female programmers. Female hardware engineers were 
>> remarkably rare -
> 
> On my last project at work. We had two female hardware engineers, both 
> analogue electronics - now there's something.  They  baked me a cake on 
> my retirement on my 65th Birthday.
> 
> At a meeting we were discussing the  finish of the electronics box. One 
> of ladies wanted it to be pink The mechanical engineer explained in all 
> seriousness, why it  had to be black . I was with her on it as most 
> paints in the IR  are black.
> 
> We had quite a few  female optical and laser  engineers  whose 
> backgrounds were physics, and a female chemist.

Female chemists haven't been remarkable since Marie Curie.

When I was getting my Ph.D. in physical chemistry several of the other 
graduate students were female, and my own mother had B.Sc. in chemistry, 
and would have had a M.Sc. if WW2 hadn't got in the way.

> I don''t recall any in mechanical engineering or digital electronics - 
> FPGA and the like.

FPA's are a relatively recent introduction - we using small programmable 
parts in 1980's but the bigger parts didn't show up until the 1990s.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney