Aiding the chillin's life decisions

[xoxoxoBruce]

Advice from Bill Knudsen (1879~1948), must have been written between 1937 and 1940.

It's still good advice to train to be able to do something useful to others.
If you can build stuff, or fix stuff, you'll always be able to support yourself... and more importantly your aging mother.
I suppose you could add some of that electronicy computer type stuff.

[Lamplighter]

I suppose you could add some of that electronicy computer type stuff.

Yes, that's true. With that you can fix Wikipedia too.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Now if you have a female child, this little baby will give them a leg up on grabbing a Lab Tech job where they have a much better chance of catching a bachelor scientist. The competition is tough because many of the scientists already have a wife who put them through grad school.

[BigV]

ExxonMobil wants to hire more women. The article says only 19% of the workforce in the oil industry is comprised of women, but 47% of the overall workforce.

"It's certainly something we're very concerned about," says Richard Keil, senior media relations adviser at ExxonMobil. His company hires a lot of engineers and scientists, and in the future, ExxonMobil wants a larger share of them to be women.

The oil giant holds an annual "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day." The company also sends its female engineers and scientists to middle schools as mentors and instructors, "all aimed at getting [female students] interested in the subject and preparing them for taking math and science courses in high school that will help them study engineering in college," Keil says.

From a link in the quote, "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day"

ExxonMobil Employees Encourage Girls to Pursue Engineering

More than 2,000 students inspired to ‘Be An Engineer’ through “Introduce a Girl to Engineering” events at facilities nationwide

Program inspires students to ‘Be An Engineer’ by sparking curiosity in science, technology, engineering and math
ExxonMobil employees serve as role models, lead hands-on activities as part of Engineers Week
Initiative is part of Girl Day, founded by DiscoverE, designed to show the collaborative and life-changing work of engineers

[glatt]

My wife's roommate in college majored in chemistry. Got a BS with good grades.

Got a job at Merck right out of school. I met her about a year or two after she got that job, and she said then that as a woman with a BS in Chemistry, she had her choice of jobs when she graduated.

She's stayed with Merck for 25 years so far, moving up from a lowly chemist all the way up to being a director of some global branch.

I understand from the news that some fields are really tough for women to break into, but my personal observations are that some other fields are so hungry for women, and there are so few of them available, that it's a golden opportunity for those few.

[BigV]

Additionally, smart is sexy.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Smart business, hiring more women reduces the payroll.

[Lamplighter]

As an old fart with 3 daughters and 3 grand-daughters, I'm all in favor of women joining every working group and level.

During my career, such events as Title IX took effect and we saw more women
applying and being accepted to medical schools, and graduating.
The other day, I looked at the directory of a large medical office building,
and counted the numbers of male and female first names.
That count was almost 50/50. That's progress I applaud.
But in dentistry, I'm not so sure... The only place I notice women as dentist is in child-specialty offices.

I still take notice when I see a woman on a survey crew or some
sort of construction job site, especially when they have a clip board in hand.
(One "unintended consequence" of this is the reduction of wolf-calls and other
stupid sounds from work crews when a woman passes by.)

Of course, the military has made enormous strides towards equality among job selections.

Now if the Air Force would just join the century.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

But in dentistry, I'm not so sure... The only place I notice women as dentist is in child-specialty offices.

My dad's dentist-friend claims this is because people don't actually realize what level of strength is required during more complicated procedures like tooth extractions. He's got forearms like Popeye.

[Sundae]

All of the dental students - and the immediate tutor - who saw me after I face-planted last year were female.
The only male I saw was someone who the face-woman asked to look at something, and she definitely did not behave in a subservient way to him. I think he may simply have been a colleague with more seniority.

If I'm going to be in close proximity to anyone else's face for professional reasons I prefer it to be another woman.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

He's got forearms like Popeye.

My dentist (my actual dentist, not my dual specialty "dentist/proctologist" that I mention from time to time) has a set of guns on him that any body builder could be proud of.

Kinda scary, really.