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- I am a civil engineer, specializing in Water Resources and
environmental concerns.
- I have a BSCE from University of Notre Dame, 1997
- The most exciting part of my job is watching my design get built.
It may be something as small as a detention pond on a golf course,
but its something that I designed and created and seeing it in
action always makes me happy. I love driving by a project site
and pointing out some aspect of the site and being able to tell
someone that I was responsible for that.
- The toughest barrier that I have had to overcome is the lack
of respect given people my age, experience and sex. I have to
repeatedly prove myself and demand the respect that I know I deserve.
I have worked for people who have automatically assumed I was
inferior to a male engineer. I no longer work for those people.
I have encountered plenty of people in this business that are
open minded and great to work for. But I had to switch jobs to
find those people.
I find that another barrier is getting people to acknowledge that
there is a problem in our field for women. Almost every woman
engineer that I know, at least in civil, has had issues with someone
treating them differently because of their sex. Whether it be
dealing with someone with a condescending attitude, being overlooked
in promotions or flat out harassment, there exists a problem for
women in my field. And those people who do not treat me or the
other women around me differently, put blinders on to the people
who do and will not support any action that rocks the boat, even
if it for the benefit of the work environment. Sometimes that
is almost as insulting as the person who treats me like a dumb
girl or harasses me.
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