Feminists

If I had him in my office looking for a job, this op ed would earn him a spot in any engineering position I had open.

I have been surrounded by engineers for most of my life. The older generation of engineers which were almost always men had some real ego problems when it came to their careers. I started out at 18 as a secretary in engineering departments in many different companies, and the amount of sexual harassment I experienced was beyond the pale. Not all engineers graduate with a 3.0 or higher. All they had to do was graduate with passing grades. I married an engineer thinking what a catch he would be. He brought home a good salary but he had such a sense of entitlement and an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Things are better now for women in the programs. My son is an engineer and he had a strong mother (thank you very much), so he has no problem with women in his field and in fact has had several female bosses during his career. He is currently a software engineer for NASA and they have the first ever female Launch Director. Almost half the people in the astronaut program are now female.