Is Manufacturing a Man's World?

From my own experience the best female engineer seems to have only a low to mid range knowledge and understanding, in other words if ya want below average engineering skills put a woman on the job... It is well documented that women's and men's brains have evolved differently.. ie men usually have larger area dedicated to spacial malipulation (visualising 3d objects mentally) hence it stands to reason that women would struggle more with engineering just as men struggle more with fine detailed work as women have a better brain for such task (not being sexiest) just pointing out that it stands to logic that if the brains have different contruction then the skill sets also change with that... So based purely on skills I would say NO to equal pay!!! (Please Note there are exception to this rule but in general I beleive it is true)

Engineering is not just a job. It involves understanding the scientific principles, deriving products from principles, working on new ideas, sustaining the challenges, troubleshooting etc. The ratio of women over men in technical field may be drooping but it does not necessarily imply the lack of aptitude in the former. At the end, the product (solution or the idea) which is successful and result-oriented should determine the pay and not merely the gender factor.