Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Why So Few Women, Still? (01 Oct 2004) Well over half of the U.S. public, including almost three-quarters of women, don't know what engineers are or what engineers do, according to a Harris Poll on public perceptions of engineering. Conversely, from daily experience, people regularly interact with doctors, lawyers, dentists, and veterinarians and know the value those professionals bring to their lives. It doesn't help matters that the most famous engineer in the United States is probably the cartoon character Dilbert-a hapless, dateless white male who labors away in Cubicle Row with dysfunctional co-workers and a clueless, if not malicious, boss. Not the sort of environment to which any of us aspire or to which, absent any other information, we would guide our children. Article URL: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/oct04/1004care.html Read 63 more articles from IEEE Spectrum sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Archiving Interactive Digital Television     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy