[OrioleFan]

My wife was told in the early seventies that the University of Minnesota didn’t accept women into their engineering program. She got her degrees in math and physics. All three of her brothers have engineering degrees, two of them from the University of Minnesota.

[imardmd1]

Engineering is far more than simply math or physics. It includes working with dominant men and the codes they devise, as well as being on the job without maternity leave, sometimes in far-off, physically stressful scenarios.

Their code of ethics usually does not make them very good politicians. You can't lie to the outcomes of natural forces, or sweet-talk corrosion (or dedicated truth-tellers) into submission.