The latest issue of the APEGBC magazine reports on the state of gender equality in engineering.

In 1996 there were 18.9% and in 2011 there were 17.7% female engineers.

All of the rest of the article includes opinion about how things are so much better with gender diversity , but the conclusions of the article include the following:

Women who study engineering are excited about science and about the opportunity to discover how science can be applied to make positive change in the world. Yet few of the women in engineering education transition to the workforce. Of the four professions explored, engineering is the most focused on applying scientific principles to solving problems and is not as driven by client perceptions of diversity as are medicine, law and accounting. The engineering profession remains susceptible to the leaky pipeline that occurs at five-seven years' experience when many of the women who enter the workforce leave. The tide needs to be stemmed in order to capture the energy, creativity and diversity of thought necessary to productively solve the challenging problems that await engineers.

Source: Page 26-29 http://www.digitalityworks.com/Viewers/ViewIssue.aspx?IssueID=114&PageNo=1

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