A woman who *really wants* to be an engineer could be great. But academic and corporate feminists rounded up funding and support beginning in the ‘90s, IIRC, to cram left wing feminists through engineering programs.
So give each female candidate the benefit of the doubt and screen her to make sure that she is an anti-feminist social conservative, especially if she paid her own way through school. If she is socially conservative (not necessarily religious but loves her dad, pro-Second-Amendment, etc.) and really just wanted to be an engineer, she might be a great engineer.
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.