Donna Riley is an associate professor and a founding member of the Picker Engineering program at Smith College. The program was the first engineering program at a women’s college in the United States (Vivian Np). Donna Riley received an award from the National Science Foundation for her work on critical and feminist pedagogy in engineering classrooms. Riley (“Hidden in Plain View” 189), seeks to get answers to how engineering ethics has addressed gender concerns, how the feminist's ethicists and philosophers’ ideas have made their way into engineering ethics and what feminist engineering ethics might look like. The feminist ethics have undergone various transformations over the years to influence the roles that the women play in scientific fields such as engineering. Other areas such as legal, business, and medical fields provide feminist ethics, but when it comes to the field of engineering, there are no such ethics.
Riley explores the factors that have prevented the recognition of the feminist engineering ethics among scholars in engineering and suggests that while creating the feminist engineering ethics, they should eliminate the negative consequences of exploring the field to improve its clarity
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Feminist engineering ethics should find out who counts morally in engineering, the communities that engineers represent, the modes of effective communication in engineering, who decides what is ethical and how do they constrict engineers’ moral agency. Riley is right to pose such questions of moral integrity on engineering profession because at the end of the day we cannot tolerate the destruction of communities, ecosystems and wrecking havoc on a global scale in the name of development. Therefore, engineers need to work on their identity and moral agency irrespective of what the public and management think of