My daughter was on the ABC National News last night while at her summer engineering program at NJ Institute of Technology. The segment highlighted a study released yesterday in the Journal of Science that researchers say the gender gap in math & science has been closed.

Here's the clip (She's wearing a pink shirt, so you can see her in several background shots in addition to her 3 second sound bite...she also claims that her work station is where Ned Potter was sitting for his piece)

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5445523

Sue (aka proud mother!)

I watched it! Congratulations! Awesome!!!

And so you should be Sue.

Congrats to her!! I saw this segment last night; you should be a SUPER proud Mom!

Really cool!

Very cool Sue, Girls do Rock!!! Congratulations and you should be a proud mama!

Sue proud you should be and are. Very nice to see and as a long time engineer way over due. There's no good reason for it.

The other weird thing about this is it's not really due to sexism as much as lack of women in the field. I can count the lady engineers on one hand that I have meet in thirty years.

So mom's tell your girls to study their math and physics. It's a wide open field just waiting for the picking.

Good for her(and YOU!), Sue.

Maybe she could come over and teach this old English Major a couple of things!

Cecil, I am an Engineer and proud of it. I met my hubby at work. Besides being a cool career, I was the only woman in the dept. for both companies (IBM and Intel) I worked for and had my pick of dates!

My hubby is now VP of a solar company and hires many woman engineers, I'm glad to see it!

Hubby is an engineer - and just by looking at Quinn - definitely in his cards. Kedron is showing similarities, I so hope she goes that path. Riker, he will be the one operating the wrecking ball LOL!! Or pressing the TNT button .

Nice profile picture. My field is a desert for females, I do microwave engineering (and no I do not make ovens).

I thinking about it right now and I can only think of three lady engineers out of a thousand or so male engineers. Pretty sucky ratio.

Jerry said blame the picture on you Cecil!

I worked in packaging, thin films to be precise, my specialty was planarization. Hows that for total geekdom! And we did microwave ashing! WOW I forgot how geeky this stuff can be.

Sue tell your daughter to stay with it, Unfortunately many jobs are going off shore.

Congratulations!!!

thanks everyone. It made me forget my horrible (2.5 hour vs typical 1 hr) yesterday morning. For the past 4 years (now 15, starting sophomore yr), she wants to go into mechanical engineering. She's a well-rounded kid, so we'll see what college she lands at in 3 years.

Congrats, Sue! I just read about it on the internet news this morning. Wishing the best for your daughter, very lucrative field!

Good for her Sue. I am a graduate of NJ Inst of Tech (as well as from the same school when it was still called Newark College of Engineering). My wife has a BS and MS in Engineering from there as well and our oldest daughter has a masters in aerospace engineering with her BS in mechanical eng. So, "girls" can indeed make it in the world of engineering. The ratio of female/male is much, much higher than it used to be when I was in school.

Sue, that's terrific! What an accomplishment and bright future for your daughter and you as her Mom! Carole

And you should be proud, congratulations!

Sue, some food for thought. Drexel, in Philadelphia, Renseler in New York State, and Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh. All great schools.

Hey don't forget my Alma Mater, Georgia Tech.

She hates warm weather, so she has no interest going south of NJ, so her short list includes MIT, Cornell, Lehigh, Renseler and Rochester. Guess we should add Drexel & Carnegie-Mellon, although she thinks the latter is not the strongest ME program.

There's also Worchester Poly Tech in Worchester, Mass. My nephew is a grad......

(Message edited by ski9413 on July 28, 2008)