Where are the women?

The sexual revolution and women's lib have transpired, so where are all babes that can truly their hands dirty with stuff like:

internal combustion engines?
electrical?
machining?

MIT has been nominally coeducational since admitting Ellen Swallow Richards in 1870. (Richards also became the first female member of MIT's faculty, specializing in sanitary chemistry.)[99] Female students, however, remained a tiny minority (numbered in dozens) prior to the completion of the first wing of a women's dormitory, McCormick Hall, in 1963.[100][101] By 1993, 32% of MIT's undergraduates were female and in 2006, the number had increased to near-parity (47.5%).[102]

It's as if the sexual revolution and women's lib never existed.

Chumly wrote:

The sexual revolution and women's lib have transpired, so where are all babes that can truly their hands dirty with stuff like:

internal combustion engines?
electrical?
machining?

So do you ever think about facts before posting stuff like this?

This is from Wikipedia:

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MIT has been nominally coeducational since admitting Ellen Swallow Richards in 1870. (Richards also became the first female member of MIT's faculty, specializing in sanitary chemistry.)[99] Female students, however, remained a tiny minority (numbered in dozens) prior to the completion of the first wing of a women's dormitory, McCormick Hall, in 1963.[100][101] By 1993, 32% of MIT's undergraduates were female and in 2006, the number had increased to near-parity (47.5%).[102]

Law and medical schools have seen the same jump in female admissions.

There are tons of sites devoted to women in the professions you list, maybe you should read through a few of them before coming to incorrect conclusions.

As a landscaper "babe", I get my hands dirty all the time. I fix my own chainsaw, backhoe and various other sundry equipment.

Chumly wrote:

It's as if the sexual revolution and women's lib never existed.

I have no idea why you would think engineering and the sexual revolution have anything to do with one another. I've never met an engineer interested in sex (and I dated a few in college}.

If you don't think the women's movement has had a huge impact in this country and much of the western world, I would suggest you use your little bitty male brain (not the one between your legs} and do some research on women's roles, reproduction rights and opportunities pre-1965.

Maybe a more fun question might be to ask why the sexier females most often don't go jobs demanding dirt under their finger nails.

I don't agree with your premise........

your posting approach isn't going to win any converts to that premise.

Well, chumly, that's a whole other kettle of fish and sheds a whole different light on the subject.

I hesitate to say this - because I'm sure there are women everywhere who do have this ability (my daughter has much mechanical and technical acuity and raw intuition than I do), but I do have to admit that at least a small part of me believes that males are usually more technically and/or mechanically adept than females.

Whether this is because they have historically been the ones who have performed these services for thousands of years....and women have been relegated to duties elsewhere, I don't know. Although I do think that that must have at least a little to do with the way that the brains, interests and skill sets of the genders have evolved over the years

You might be right about some general lack of interest re your stated niche past run of the mill general lack of interest.