[BC] Female engineers

[Kim Sacks]

No one has heard of me, I'm still a broadcast newbie, but I have 5 
years under my belt so far.

I've yet to meet another female broadcast engineer face to face, I'm 
sure I will one day. Since were on the subject... During an interview 
for a job (not broadcast centric, electronics related) the fact that 
I had a ham license was a big plus, but there was concern if the 
"guys in engineering" would be "comfortable" with me as part of their 
crew, and vice vesa. I responded by saying "I work with boradcast 
engineers. I've heard every knob, shaft, screw, and rack joke you can 
think of. I think I'll be just fine." Unfortunately, I never heard 
back from them. I guess I was to confrontational.

-Kim

------ At 08:12 AM 5/8/2008, Jim Seaman wrote: -------


Interesting. In my 30+ years in this business I can't say I need all 
the fingers on one hand to count the number of female radio engineers 
I've heard of. Fewer yet for those I've had the pleasure to meet. 
It's a very small group of women in radio. The old Westinghouse 
stations used to be unusually progressive that way. I've encountered 
a few more here in TV, but unfortunately women broadcast engineers 
continue to be a curiosity.