This is probably it, there&#x27;s even movies about it (Legally Blonde, etc). What&#x27;s different there is customer-facing vs non-customer-facing roles, a lawyer who shows up in court in non-professional attire is going to get flak, and I don&#x27;t know what the immediate female-heavy analogue for a back-of-office, not-customer-facing male-dominated engineer department. The usual examples of female-dominated professions like nursing and teaching don&#x27;t fit that comparison.<p>But it&#x27;s very disingenuous to call engineering low social status these days. Wearing Star Wars t-shirts or talking about computer parts and technology 24&#x2F;7, yes, that will still receive at least some ribbing, if not more, but that&#x27;s not the same as being an engineer by day. In my recent social experience, reaction after someone asks &quot;what do you do?&quot; is pretty uniformly somewhere on the positively-neutral-to-impressed spectrum.