Thousands of women engineers have made a stand on Twitter to dispel the myth that all engineers are men. They are embracing and sharing images of themselves with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer.
The campaign was initiated by Isis Wenger, a 22-year-old female engineer, after she was featured in an advert to recruit new developers for OneLogin a security company in San Francisco. She received both positive and negative attention which prompted her to highlight gender issues in the tech world.
Just updated my Medium post! #iLookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/szMTCuRVu0
— Isis Anchalee (@isisAnchalee) August 3, 2015
Wenger took to Linkedin and Twitter, signing up for an account on 3 August, to post a picture of herself with the #iLookLikeAnEngineer hashtag and within a day it had gone viral and far beyond the advert that spawned it.
I'm female, wear pink and I'm pregnant. I'm also a full stack software engineer. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/3PV9BepNYy
— JC (@jo_momma_jo) August 3, 2015
i have undergrad & grad degrees in eecs from mit & have done machine learning research on asimo #iLookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/c5OxS5wB2F
— sailor mercury (@sailorhg) August 3, 2015
I have Mech and Civil Eng degrees from @uiowa and @Cal and love designing and building things #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/ZlfY5JcH2q
— Trucy Phan (@trucy) August 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/EliciaMDennis/status/628422969228853248
I tissue engineered articular cartilage at UCSF & Cal b4 becoming a technical lead @DataStax #iLookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/htW6fn4Bn5
— dani traphagen 🎆 (@dtrapezoid) August 3, 2015
Posting under the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer, women working in science, technology, engineering and associated subjects have been posting selfies of themselves and describing what they do.
https://twitter.com/daraoke/status/628625476051861504
The campaign was spurred by an advert to recruit new developers for OneLogin a security company in San Francisco, which used a photo of Isis Wenger one of its female platform engineers.
