Penn just started it’s newest campaign to help engineering students pick up chicks. SEAS launched the Advancing Women in Engineering program in order to get more women involved in engineering.

The question is — why? If women have decided that spending their life in a cubicle with Dilbert cartoons taped to the walls isn’t for them, let it be.

I don’t understand why a lack of women in engineering is perceived as such a problem. It’s not that they aren’t interested in sciences. More than half of all medical school applicants are women. Perhaps women just don’t want a career where they have to worry about outsourcing to the point that they go insane and take a bat to the fax machine.

If SEAS is worried about anyone becoming engineers, it should be its students. The number one employer of SEAS graduates is Goldman Sachs, and tied for number two is McKinsey & Co.

Tags: SEAS, women

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