
A middle-class home in 1980s Dublin, and a young girl with an aptitude for maths and sciences has just eagerly announced to her engineer father that she intends to follow in his footsteps. His response: “I’d never hire a woman as an engineer.”
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By Jessica Twentyman
Published: May 14 2008 04:17 | Last updated: May 14 2008 04:17

A middle-class home in 1980s Dublin, and a young girl with an aptitude for maths and sciences has just eagerly announced to her engineer father that she intends to follow in his footsteps. His response: “I’d never hire a woman as an engineer.”