Montreal Massacre, 30 years later: My experience as a woman in engineering
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Author(s): Kim Jones
Date: 2019
Thirty years ago, I was a teenaged girl with a choice to make when a man killed 14 women at École Polytechnique, in Montreal.
The women were innocent. The killer was angry that these “feminists” were in engineering school and he was not.
Before that horrific day, I had been on the fence about what to study in university: science or engineering. After the terrible events in Montreal, I was angry. I decided then and there that I was going to be an engineer. I would prove that women deserve a place in engineering because they are every bit as smart and capable as any man.
The women were innocent. The killer was angry that these “feminists” were in engineering school and he was not.
Before that horrific day, I had been on the fence about what to study in university: science or engineering. After the terrible events in Montreal, I was angry. I decided then and there that I was going to be an engineer. I would prove that women deserve a place in engineering because they are every bit as smart and capable as any man.