04 Sep Solar Decathlon Gives Women Engineering Students a Chance to Shine
Steel toe work boots. How hard could it be in Southern California to find work boots? But it was for Reem Habib.
“When I tried to buy steel toe boots, I couldn’t find any in my size — they had no women’s sizes,” she said. She settled for a smaller size in a man’s boot.
It is just one of the adjustments women engineers make in a profession historically dominated by men. As of 2013, only 11.7 percent of engineers in the U.S. were women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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