Today is the anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre - From Wikipedia
The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Twenty-five year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a legally obtained semi-automatic rifle and a hunting knife, shot twenty-eight people, killing fourteen (all of them women) and injuring the other fourteen before killing himself. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was "fighting feminism", he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targetting women to shoot. He killed fourteen women and injured four men and ten women in just under twenty minutes before turning the gun on himself.
Something to keep in mind, as a woman engineer working in a what remains an almost completely male-dominated field.... 1989 seems like a long time ago, but I was 6 years out of my own engineering school at the time, a school where there were 13 male students for every female one at the time. Things have changed a lot since then, but such thinking remains fresh in the collective memory
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