在美国，涉足科学、技术、工程以及数学(STEM) 领域工作的女性不多，原因是什么呢？对此，Valecia Maclin 给予了解释。
In the field of engineering, men hold most of the jobs. But DiscoverE wanted to change that. On February 25, DiscoverE, known as the National Engineers Week Foundation, celebrated its yearly Girl Day.
在工程领域，男人占据了大部分工作岗位。但是DiscoverE想要改变这一现象。2016年2月25日，被外界所熟知的美国国家工程师周基金会DiscoverE庆祝了其一年一度的女生日。
Although women fill close to all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25% in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The agency also reported women hold a low share of college degrees in these fields, particularly in engineering.
据美国商务部的数据显示，虽然女性在其他种类工作中的职位占比与男性相当，但是在科学、技术、工程和数学领域 所占职位比例还是要比男性低25%。美国商务部还称女性在这些领域的大学学历占比也要低一些，尤其是在工程领域。
With such a large gender gap in STEM jobs, DiscoverE wanted to show females the different fields available to them. It also intended to uncover the different myths(错误的观点) that may be causing females to shy away from this line of work. Valecia Maclin, a director of Raytheon, a technology company, and one of DiscoverE’s partners, gave the four most common myths about engineers.
因为在STEM领域存在巨大的男女差异，DiscoverE想要给女性支出一些适合于她们的不同领域。DiscoverE还想揭开使女性避开这些工作的误解。Valecia Maclin是科技公司Raytheon的一个总监，这家公司也是DiscoverE 的合作伙伴之一，她给出了过程领域最常见的四个误解。
Myth 1: Engineers aren’t creative.
误解1：工程师不是创造性工作岗位。
According to Maclin, engineers are actually creative. “Engineers need to be very creative in order to solve problems,” she says. And females, Maclin adds, are great at problem solving.
据Maclin说，工程师实际上是具有创造性的。“为了解决问题，工程师应该是非常具有创造力的，”她说。而女性在解决问题方面非常有优势。
Myth 2: Engineering is harder for girls.
误解2：工程对于女性更难。
Maclin finds that math allows students to be on an equal level, no matter what their gender is. “Math is either right or wrong and always equal,” she says. “That equal sign meant I was equal to all the males in my class.”
Maclin发现不管性别是男是女，他们在数学方面的表现都是一样的。“不管对错，数学总是等同的，等同就意味着我和班里的所有男孩是一样的。”她说。
Myth 3: You’ll be the only female in your engineering class.
误解3：你会成为工程班里的唯一的女性。
Maclin admits there’re usually very few females in engineering classes. Such was the case in her own experience, but rarely will there be only one female in the class. She believes this can work in favor of females.
Maclin 承认在工程班里的女性很少。她自己就曾经是班里的为数不多的女性之一，但是班里只有一个女性的情况是非常罕见的。她认为这会使得女性更愿意选择工程专业。
Myth 4: You’ll get paid less than the male engineers.
误解4：得到的报酬比男性工程师要少。
剩余段落暂不支持预览，下载文章即可阅读全文，有任何疑问请您联系客服【18011429143】微信同号。
