Engineers They say there are not enough women engineers and yet every summer scores of us put on bathing suits. The geometry of conic sections; the rigging of straps artfully lifting; tensile strength of space-age fabrics cunningly woven with camouflaging puckers, camouflaging panels and lines, camouflaging everything. All of that measured against price, against color, against availability. All of that considered against the challenges of the day: the venue, the audience, the potential athletic demands. All of that taken against the goal— which is never to look good— but realistically to just look the best one can reasonably expect and to be comfortable with that. They say there are not enough women engineers... maybe they don’t know where to look.
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