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    Mentorship and promoting diversity are key to growing the number of women in the field, explains Engineering Professor Dr. Sumi Siddiqua“When someone tells me what I’m working on is a ‘man’s thing’ and I shouldn’t be doing it, I know that’s precisely what I should do,” explains Dr. Sumi Siddiqua, a professor at UBC Okanagan.Civil engineering is one of those things.

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