New faces of Eve: Women in electrical engineering

The gap between the number of highly trained technical people and the positions to be filled is widening year by year. There has been much soul searching on the parts of the profession and of education as to where the fault lies, but one important reservoir of talent remains largely untapped-the woman engineer. This article examines the motivations of the woman who selects engineering as a career, and discusses her problems and potential in a field that has always been associated with the masculine image.