G'day,
From Barbara's first post to this thread:-

"There seems to be a correlation between math ability and music ability, and the typically "male" careers like engineering and....... "

I've always found my engineering background to be helpful in understanding musical forms & structures. Such terms as 'octave' and 'harmonic' are as much engineering terms as musical.

Whether that helps with my playing is another story......

And this does nothing towards answering the original question. For that we'd need a response from a female engineer.

Cheers,
Alan