IANS 
 
New Delhi, Oct 1: Wires, networking, electronics... stereotypically sounds like a man's world, doesn't it? But that's not the case if you talk about it with the girl students of the Shaheed Rajguru College.

For these 19-20 year-olds, their dreams are intertwined with electrical wires.

"What is all the fuss about, this being a man's job and that a woman's?  Networking requires connecting wires, but that is only 20 percent of the work. And since we are interested in the subject and want to make it as our career, there is really nothing to stop us," said Priyanka, a third-year student of the college.

The course on networking was started by the Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women in the year 2002, which is under Delhi University (DU) and supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem).

The course initially attracted about 20 girls annually, but now it has batches of nearly 100 girls.

College principal S Lakshmi Devi said that the course is not only attracting more and more students of the college but students from other colleges as well.

"Networking is the 'in' thing. And knowledge on this subject gives one an edge over others. Five years back, Cisco, the networking company, did a presentation in our college, which generated a lot of interest among the girls. So we decided to introduce this subject, as 'add-on' course in the college.

"But since starting the course involved a lot of expenditure, we approached Unifem and they funded us. The course has been immensely successful and being the only college under DU to have this course, we have been getting a lot of requests from students of other colleges to let them join the course as well," Devi said.