lclkrist.bsky.social
Some art mostly about being a woman in engineering. Born at 357 ppm. Some day I will graduate (or give up).
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In Ottawa the recent weather left a lot of black ice on the sidewalks. Can't help but think it might have discouraged some voters (hopefully few people slipped and fell).
Unfortunate but not unexpected outcome.
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I did a survey of engineering students (about 25% women in the faculty), I had a group work question where they selected all the roles that applied for them... (Sorry about my horrible colour choices for the pink).
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I'm the random unconnected thoughts a bit more than I'd like.
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Today is the anniversary of the executive order that removed people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast of the US and incarcerated them in camps for the duration of WWII. Property, land, businesses, were stolen from them and in almost all cases, never returned.
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Women in eng are more of a minority in the US and face similar problems due to this in both countries (depends a lot of the engineering field as well).
Canada already has relatively low funding for research, which is why there's been a brain drain to other countries for awhile.
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Ontario is the province you're thinking of, Ottawa is the capital of Canada (and is in Ontario). :)
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I'm a baby academic so I get excited every time and often reach out to the people citing me. (Especially since I have two areas of research, EDI and civil Eng so often cited in very different things!)
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Diversity makes us stronger and smarter as a whole. These are the types of voices that ask questions like 'yes we can, but should we' and 'how will this work for xyz'
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DEI initiatives are important. Diverse viewpoints are critical to good engineering and to get those all people, including different genders, cultural/ racial backgrounds and sexualities need equal access to education and opportunities to work in their field. 4/
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What I have found is that men and women have different understandings about issues for women in engineering (I looked mainly at unconscious biases).
But what I also found that many times when I presented about my survey gay men would talk about how much they felt the need to hide their sexuality.3
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This started my interest in women in engineering, because I had lots of great observations but a lot of people only cared if I'd go on a date with them.
In the last couple years I have done a couple EDI surveys focused on women in eng. 2/
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I switched my internet browser on my laptop to duck duck go (which apparently is a totally reputable browser) which helps a lot in not having to scroll past ai bs every internet search.
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I'm still frustrated by all the teams groups I'm in taking preference in the 'quick access' section making everything take longer to save my documents. I don't understand why AI is being shoved onto everyone, feels like every update makes things less usable. :s
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Mediocre can develope into good then great. Sometime being bad at something initially actually makes you learn it more deeply.
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I absolutely love this!
*Me pushing for more mediocre women engineer to make it, afterall there's plenty of mediocre men engineers...*
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Having the canal open has been an incredible stress reliever for me. Didn't realize how much I missed it until going for that first skate! Hopefully it'll stay open for awhile!
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As a woman with multiple engineering degrees I fully agree. I don't understand how it feels like things can go backwards so quickly!
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I think there's often this concept of a tortured genius where someone follows a single passion unrelentingly but science is more often things that happen along the way to something else. Like if you're good at something but people aren't valuing your contributions you can go elsewhere...
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I switched to duck duck go and it's been working okay so far (do have to actually search up google maps though).