During my years at Columbia, Sunita Williams has space-walked, Meg Whitman has served as the chief executive officer of eBay Inc., and Francoise Barré-Sinoussi has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The fact that women have made such great achievements in science-and- technology-related fields can deceive one into thinking that the gender disparity in these fields is diminishing. Yet, while more women are going into engineering, they still make up only 11% of engineering professionals nationally. The gap between males and females is lower on college campuses where women make up 19.4% of engineering undergraduates nationally. At Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, males still heavily outnumber the females. So why is the proportion of female engineers still so low?
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