Of course if you get an engineering degree the sky is the limit..male or female. Then you are easily in the 6 figure category and/or a spin off into sales for the leading telecom or their equipment makers. Those that remained in the category of “employed” are being hired away by competitors for even more money. I have seen it. Start-ups are always after those same people as well.
What field in Engineering? My son is going to college next year. He wants to major Biomedical Engineering and then join the Marines. I suppose he wants to blow people up and put them back together again. LOL.