--- title: Female Engineers Are Using the Hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer description: Female engineers are using the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer to challenge gender stereotypes. canonical: https://time.com/3985124/ilooklikeanengineer-sexism-gender-engineer-social-media/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-05T04:11:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:16.738Z og:title: #ILookLikeAnEngineer Challenges Gender Stereotypes og:description: Campaign aims to redefine “what an engineer should look like” og:url: https://time.com/3985124/ilooklikeanengineer-sexism-gender-engineer-social-media/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4cb5af934dc4fd4/69885df18e06018324461b3f/isis-anchalee-engineer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Isis-Anchalee-engineer og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: #ILookLikeAnEngineer Challenges Gender Stereotypes twitter:description: Campaign aims to redefine “what an engineer should look like” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4cb5af934dc4fd4/69885df18e06018324461b3f/isis-anchalee-engineer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Female Engineers Are Using the Hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer to Tear Down Gender Stereotypes ## Video: Cracking The Girl Code [Watch (HLS stream): Cracking The Girl Code](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IUeOpvkH.m3u8) (3:07)  _Published 2014-07-31. A program is trying to address low employment rates of women in the technology industry by attacking the issue at its source: Education. 'Girls Who Code' teaches young women computer science, in order to reverse the decline of women in the field._ by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Aug 5, 2015 4:11 AM UTC  Courtesy of @isisAnchalee by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Aug 5, 2015 4:11 AM UTC After a photo of software engineer Isis Anchalee appeared on a recruiting ad for her employer OneLogin, she received numerous sexist comments online about female engineers (sadly, no surprises there). So the 22-year-old “self-taught engineer, extreme introvert, science-nerd” and “anime lover” wrote a [blog post](https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/you-may-have-seen-my-face-on-bart-8b9561003e0f) to highlight the issues women in tech face. She said that most people in the industry are well intentioned “but genuinely blind to a lot of the crap that those who do not identify as male have to deal with.” Fed up with the negative and ignorant comments, Anchalee invited those who “do not fit the cookie-cutter mold” to help redefine “what an engineer should look like” under the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer. > [](https://twitter.com/isisAnchalee/status/628294846713757696) And a Twitter storm followed … > [](https://twitter.com/stubbornella/status/628409173563174912) > [](https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/628387591478378496) > [](https://twitter.com/Werner/status/628446318499749889) > [](https://twitter.com/daraoke/status/628625476051861504) > [](https://twitter.com/Jenry29/status/628766972336017410) > [](https://twitter.com/absolutspacegrl/status/628424410295242752) > [](https://twitter.com/lisariendeau/status/628382642640039936) Even astronaut [Scott Kelly,](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/) who is currently spending a year orbiting the earth on the International Space Station, got involved to show his support. > [](https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/628627295943561216) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3985124/ilooklikeanengineer-sexism-gender-engineer-social-media/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3985124/ilooklikeanengineer-sexism-gender-engineer-social-media/"},"headline":"Female Engineers Are Using the Hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer to Tear Down Gender Stereotypes","datePublished":"2015-08-05T04:11:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:16.738Z","description":"Campaign aims to redefine “what an engineer should look like”","url":"https://time.com/3985124/ilooklikeanengineer-sexism-gender-engineer-social-media/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Social Media","Internet","viral","sexism","hashtag"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4cb5af934dc4fd4/69885df18e06018324461b3f/isis-anchalee-engineer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4cb5af934dc4fd4/69885df18e06018324461b3f/isis-anchalee-engineer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Isis-Anchalee-engineer","caption":"Isis-Anchalee-engineer","creditText":"Courtesy of @isisAnchalee","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3985124/ilooklikeanengineer-sexism-gender-engineer-social-media/","name":"Female Engineers Are Using the Hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer to Tear Down Gender Stereotypes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Cracking The Girl Code","description":"A program is trying to address low employment rates of women in the technology industry by attacking the issue at its source: Education. 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