Thanks Tom Sorry for the delay in writing. I'm a bit behind in reading e-mails as usual. You are right. There aren't many women in my profession. Off hand I can think of 3 others besides myself in my company of 4000 employees. There may be some I don't know. It's interesting to say the least. It's also a bit uncomfortable traveling to meetings and being the only female present. In my new job I have to travel to attend a quarterly meeting and I am the only female there. Oh well such is life... haha.... I'm used to it by now. It sure doesn't feel like I've been doing this for 20 years. Oh by the way. I loved Math when I was in school. But it wasn't until High School when I had an excellent Math teacher who took the time with me before it actually sunk in. I remember my 7th grade math teacher telling me I would never be any good at math and how it hurt because Math was my favorite subject. Well I struggled through it some how and earned my degree in spite of his prediction. Ronda Dear RondaRed Good for you! As a teacher in my second career (and as a one time radio ham), I know that about 90% of engineering students are men. Yet, I have taught math and science to many brilliant girls who could have become outstanding engineers. But, somehow they never got there. I suppose they became sociology majors or communication majors. I have often wondered why. It think it is cultural, because after WWII when many millions of Russian men were killed, Russian women became the engineers and scientists. Tom the bewildered