Spectral lines: It's about time

Three or four years from now, the chances of your working side-by-side with a female engineer will have increased dramatically. Then, women engineers will be entering the work force in numbers worthy of note and comment. Those of our male colleagues who remain convinced that a woman's place is either in the home, or in occupations more traditionally “feminine,” are duly forewarned. As for the rest of us, we can only welcome the change as long overdue.