Do we have careers for woman and careers for men?

  I had a very bad experience when I was studying at the University some years ago. I studied Electronic Engineer and this profession in my country is usually studied by men, but I really love it so I decided to study it. The first semester we were 125 people studying Electronic Engineer and just 25 were women. I had a class where we had to make some electronic projects, and for me was very hard because I had to use some tools that I hadn’t used in my life, but I made my best effort trying to learn to use them. One of these projects I had to make a power supply equipment and I spent many days working on it, and the day that I had to show the equipment to my teacher, it doesn’t work. I was very sad and worried about it, and one of my classmate (obviously a man), asked me what had happened with my equipment, so I told him that it doesn’t work. He started to laugh of me and said me: “Electronic Engineer is for men, women have to study women careers like Social Communication or Clothes Design or something like that.” He made me feel very bad in that moment and I started to cry. My professor saw me crying and he thought that it was because my project wasn’t working, so he checked it and in just two minutes he told me that everything was right and the problem was just a piece of cable that was broke. I changed it and my project worked well. My classmate’s project never worked and I didn’t see him at the faculty again. After 2 years I met him at the University, and I asked him why I hadn’t seen him again at the faculty and the answer was something that I’m never going to forget. He answered me: “Because Electronic Engineer is very difficult and I couldn’t with this career. I’m studying Social Communication now.” I couldn’t believe that. He was studying the carrier that he had suggested for me because I was women. In that moment I just laughed and I told him “Well you now, Electronic Engineer is for men, women have to study women careers like Social Communication or Clothes Design or something like that.”  He didn’t say anything after that; the only thing that he said was “Yes, I was wrong.”