female engineer
She designs systems
A female engineer is a woman who works in engineering—a specification that wouldn't exist if the field weren't historically male-dominated.
The phrase appears in discussions of workplace diversity, gender gaps in STEM, and efforts to recruit women into technical professions: The company hired its first female engineer in 1985.
Like "female doctor" or "female pilot," the modifier marks what was once exceptional but is increasingly ordinary.
- technicianSkilled practical worker
- STEMFour-discipline academic grouping
- women in STEMFemales in technical fields
- codingWriting software instructions
- programmerOne who writes software
computer science · scientist · inventor · aerospace · mechanical · software · circuit · circuit board · blueprint · pioneer · trailblazer · glass ceiling · breaking barriers · role model · tech industry · Ada Lovelace · Marie Curie · robotics
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