#iLookLikeAnEngineer: Female Engineers Fight Back Against the Stereotype

by Kathryn Hensch

Some people think that jobs in engineering, which require some serious brainpower, are only held by men. It’s absolutely preposterous that a woman could do work in that field, right? You can’t have children/wear dresses/do anything conventionally woman-like and be an engineer, right?

Wrong. Thus, Isis Wegner created #ILookLikeAnEngineer to dismantle this sexist way of thinking. Here’s some of the lovely ladies of technology:

 

All images via Twitter

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