Male Engineering Student Sets Facebook On Fire Over Letter About Female Classmates [LOOK]

A senior Mechanical Engineering student at Eastern Washington University, penned a letter to his female classmates in the school’s newspaper, and the letter has been making rounds on Facebook and some other social media.

Jared Muldin, started the letter with a somewhat blunt statement that said, “…you and I are in fact unequal.” but it is not exactly what we all think.

Muldin penned down the letter after he saw how his female counterparts struggle to have their voices be heard in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

The letter Posted by A Mighty Girl on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 has garnered over a million likes and over 40, 000 shares on Facebook.

The letter reads:

“To the women in my engineering classes, while it is my intention in every other interaction I share with you to treat you as my peer, let me deviate from that to say that you and I are in fact unequal….I did not for example, grow up in a world that discouraged me from focusing on science.

Women are dramatically underrepresented in many STEM fields, particularly engineering: in 2012, only 18% of engineering bachelor’s degrees in the US were granted to women. It’s also common for women who graduate from engineering programs to leave the profession, often because of discrimination and hostile work environments.

I have had no difficulty whatsoever with a boys club mentality, and I will not face added scrutiny or remarks of my being the ‘diversity hire.’ When I experience success, the assumption of others will be that I earned it. I was not bombarded with images and slogans telling me that my true worth was in how I look, and that I should abstain from certain activities because I might be thought too masculine.

I was not overlooked by teachers who assumed that the reason I did not understand a tough math or science concept was, after all, because of my gender… So, you and I cannot be equal. You have already conquered far more in this field than I will ever face.”