My experience is that woman engineers are quite good. Women and men who have (what Dilbert called) ‘the knack’ are drawn to engineering.
I’m sure! Women, and I am one, can do a lot of things these days. But some things they should not.
I worked in a ductile iron foundry as the production control administrator for a time. It was a tough environment. Like dealing with sailors. Sexual harassment was simply part of the job and didn’t bother me in the least. I ignored it, gave them a piece of my mind, and in one case slapped a guy across the face with such force no one dared bother me after that again. That all said, there were zero women working in the melt department for VERY GOOD REASON. It was deadly dangerous and very, heavy work. Not only that, but the men needed to concentrate on what was going on around them. Not being distracted by a female nearby.
They did hire one girl who lasted less than a week for numerous reasons. One being she couldn’t handle it physically. EEO was on us all the time to hire more women, but it was not really possible in that environment. Those ladles of molten iron weigh over a ton each and there was a man on each side to guide it as it was moved by the track attached to the ceiling. That girl was useless when the thing started moving her way....just saying.
I’m a retired woman engineer (30 years experience). There weren’t too many of us. The women engineers I worked with were very good. This was before DEI