Yeah as an engineer I’ve noticed that the women in the field are generally better at it than the men. At the top levels it evens out, but at the bottom it’s all guys (and one lady I know, abysmal engineer, just as bad as the men I had to carry in school alongside her). My theory has always been that some people really want to be an engineer or love aspects of the field, people who really love this stuff will be happy to be doing it even if you stick out like a sore thumb. Meanwhile only men seem to go to engineering school because they were fine at math and want money and other reasons that tend to leave you a bad engineer.

And I think it goes both ways. I never had a male teacher growing up who was bad unless he was a coach, music major, or a creep, and the music majors were generally great guys too. Men rarely teach children unless they love teaching children