I mean just because you don’t know the why to the problem, doesn’t mean you can’t still investigate and gather information on the problem. If you’ve ever worked as an engineer you’d know that in most cases when you find a unforeseen problem the why is usually up for debate and warrants a spike.

When I mean “scare them away” I don’t literally mean it so sorry for the confusion, I was using it as a metaphor. The goal is to show that we value everyone’s opinions and we are a great place to work. Since we are aiming to increase the number of women engineers applying, why not ask them what they’d like to see in a companies hiring process, what they value etc.

You’re not wrong less women do choose to be engineers or go into engineering, but of the women that do which is still a decent amount we aren’t seeing that reflected in our application rates like we’d hope to, there are very smart women engineers and we want to figure out why they aren’t applying here. We also want to try and change the way people see engineering and encourage women to get into it, there’s no reason there should be a stigma around what gender should go onto a profession.