Engineers, why is your profession/major such a boys club, or is that just a stereotype?

Ask the women why they hardly ever major in CS or engineering.

Because it's dry, boring math and stuff, with long hours.

It doesn't provide the creativity, work/life balance, and fungibility in a job that many women prefer, career wise.

I'm a women and I'm planning to major in some sort of engineering. I know men generally go into engineering but I never really understood why either. Preference I suppose.

Culturally, men are encouraged to get in to math/science, while women are discouraged. This creates a gender disparity in those classes. That disparity itself has the effect of being recursively discouraging to women (few women around is discouraging, which lowers the number of women, which further discourages, etc.).

I think it matches the more common brain type of males. Females who end up there probably have the brain type more commonly found in men. It works both ways too. Men in female dominated fields probably have the brain type more commonly found in females.

It's true, unless it's chemical engineering and then you get a 50/50 split. There's a reason they call it "Fem Eng" sometimes.

I think the main reason it is a boys club is simply because there are no women in it. I know that most of us would LOVE to see more women engineers.

But to be fair, we probably drive a fair number of women off. Having a woman in an engineering class is a bit like dipping a steak in a shark tank. It amazes me how socially inept some people (speaking about engineers specifically here) can be.

I definitely don't think there are any barriers to entry for women to get into engineering. Nothing's stopping women from majoring in it. Heck, there are more women getting college degrees than men!

I think most women just aren't interested in the field, which is why engineering is still so male dominated.

Because of violent video games.