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Online images reinforce engineering stereotypes

Reading an article on E&T online about online images reinforcing engineering stereotypes so I thought I'd take a bit of a look at some of the Free stock photography sites, use the search term of 'Engineer' and have a look at the types of photos that come up in the results.


Really pleased to say that there was a HUGE amount of images depicting women in Engineering available (out of the 25 top images over 15 of them had women in them) which leads me to think that its those working in Brand Marketing that need to be taught to break out of the stereotypes?
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  • Lisa: the first image is from the technical photo collection at STC and is labelled 'wiring selectors 1960s'. Unfortunately, we don't have names for most of the people appearing in the images, as the focus was on the technology!
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  • Lisa: the first image is from the technical photo collection at STC and is labelled 'wiring selectors 1960s'. Unfortunately, we don't have names for most of the people appearing in the images, as the focus was on the technology!
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