Metz discussed Stevens' role in raising awareness among women about engineering careers recently on the Washington D.C.-based program White House Chronicle . Of the engineers in the workforce today, only about 10 percent are women, Metz says. She says women are finding exciting career opportunities in engineering, computer science and technology, but getting women interested in studying engineering is the key. And it's not about a difference in skills. There is not a difference between women doing math and men doing math.
Women are well-prepared to study engineering.
It's really a matter of a lack of information about the field and encouragement towards engineering. Today, Stevens' 23 percent female student body is above the national average. Its 2001 class retained an unprecedented 97 percent of its female constituency. White House Chronicle is a weekly national television program produced in collaboration with Howard University Television, White House Weekly , and Stevens Institute of Technology. It reaches 500,000 viewers in the greater Washington area.