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Women Engineers to Save the World?

I was interested to read your item on women engineers and their environmental empathy [QuickDips, March]. What sort of solid empirical evidence is there to demonstrate this?

I am reminded of the claim that women should rule the planet as they won't wage war and everything would be rosy -- and then along came Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands conflict...

Not to mention the concept of the "native-born" ecologist living in harmony with nature, as if countless examples of extinction under such cultures didn't exist.

We certainly need more women engineers just as we could do with more male nurses and a generally better cross-gender representation in all fields of endeavour. But do we have to support it on any other grounds that that of equity of opportunity?

K. Kerr, Auckland