Nicole Robert, PH '97
"When I was president of LNL (Lens and Lights) there was opposition. There were only three females in the organization and I was making decisions for all these guys and they did not always like it."
Amy Plack, TS '96
"There was one time when we were doing a lab and my partner and I called the TA to ask him a questions. When he came over the TA mostly talked to him."
Tamara Samuels, ME '99
"I was in this class during my freshman year and some guy asked a real dumb question and the professor replied that was a girl's question. I felt offended by it, but you get that everywhere. I am doing co-op right now and a guy came today complaining that he was late because all these "women drivers" and such and such. There is no more here [WPI] than anywhere else, but here they make a conscious effort to avoid it."
Flavia Souto, ME'97
"I have a lot of views that make me blind to the gender. I have found some opposite cases, when I have gone up to a professor to ask him a question and I almost feel he is giving me special attention because I am a woman. I haven't had any bad experiences"
Patricia Sears, CE '96
"Guys kind of give each other respect automatically, even if they don't know each other. But I kind of have to earn their respect before they trust me to make decisions. It is not a huge thing but it bothers me."
Sommyr Pochan, EE '98
"I took two Navy classes and for the first time at WPI I had a female faculty as a professor. It was very odd for me. I was not used to it."
Kirsty Reidy, MEA, '96