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Although the number of women engineers today has improved since the early 1980s, their participation in the engineering industries is low.

The stereotype that links masculinity to technology is prevalent and difficult to overcome.

Women graduates with an engineering degree are not confident of a sure career.

Most of them will either not enter the engineering field or work for a few years and then leave.

But women in law and medicine, for example, prefer to remain in their jobs.

The Board of Engineers Malaysia said there were 26 per cent of women engineering graduates last year, but only six per cent are professional engineers.

Conventional wisdom says that women in engineering are afraid of breaking the glass ceiling.

It has been found that the biggest pushback for female engineers is a hostile working environment and also the balancing role women have to play once they start having children.

Malaysia needs a strategy to address this, if we are not to waste such talent.

Rabeya Anzum

Telecommunications engineer,

International Islamic University Malaysia

Source; https://www.nst.com.my/opinion...