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Saskatoon: May 2 80 Valleybrook Dr., Toronto, ON M3B 2S9. 2 0 1 8 Moncton: May 29 Kitchener: October 10 Printed in Canada 28 www.design-engineering.com January/February | 2018 6 EditorialViewpoint The Enemy of Good www.design-engineering.com Publisher Alan Macpherson (416) 510-6756 n the span of one generation, female students have closed [email protected] the gender gap at Canadian universities and are entering Editor I Michael McLeod (416) 442-5600 ext. 3231 professions like law and health sciences in record numbers. [email protected] Yet for all the progress made in other careers, engineering Associate Editor remains a heavily male-dominated field. Lindsay Luminoso (416) 510-5233 [email protected] In Canada, many in the engineering community are looking to correct that Account Manager imbalance by rooting out the primary reasons behind it. Dr. Mary Wells, University Ron Salmon (416) (905) 713-4362 of Guelph Engineering Dean and Chair of the Ontario Network of Women in [email protected] Art Director Engineering (ONWiE), leads that effort. In her article, “Closing the Engineering Mark Ryan (416) 442-5600 ext. 3541 Gender Gap,” (pg. 22 of this issue), she points out that this gender disparity begins Account Coordinator in grade 11 and 12 physics class. Cheryl Fisher (416) 510-5194 [email protected] She shows that, in grade 10 science (a mandatory credit), the female to male ratio Circulation Manager is roughly 50/50 but drops to 32/68 for students who successfully complete grade 11 Beata Olechnowicz (416) 442-5600 ext. 3543 and 12 physics. And of all the engineering degree pre-requisites (English; Advanced [email protected] Functions; Physics; Chemistry; Calculus and Vectors), physics is one of the only Vice President Tim Dimopoulos (416) 510-5100 courses that sees such an imbalance. So what is it about grade 11 and 12 physics that [email protected] disproportionally dissuades more young women than men from entering this field? COO At this point, the answer is unclear.