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The still-gaping gender gap

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah

Erika Kangas and Iva Shallvari are the engineers of their own career fates , meaning there was no hemming and hawing about how they would apply their math and science skills in university.

Since childhood, the Ontario residents have had their sights set on careers in engineering — goals that run contrary to the norm, as statistics show declining numbers of female students in Canadian undergraduate university programs.

They don't know each other, but Ms. Kangas, an aerospace engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto, and Ms. Shallvari, studying mechanical engineering at the University of Windsor, have a lot in common.
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