A woman engineer’s responsibility is exactly the same as a man’s: to be technically proficient, quality focused and ethics-minded. But a woman has the additional burden of dealing with frequent insinuations that we just don’t belong.
Sometimes it takes the form of microaggressions, such as a shared computer screen with a bikinied woman as the wallpaper image. More often the microaggresion is expressed through language, such as men referring to women as “gals.” Neither example belongs in a professional setting.