Lala, we automatically assumed you were male because the overwhelming majority of engineers in the aviation industry are - and because young men aren't known for level heads and balanced viewpoints. If you were tired and angry when you wrote the post, it explains why I immediately assumed you were a young bloke.
I do not recommend posting while tired and angry. It gives the rest of us girls a bad name.
It's a difficult industry for anyone to break into, and with the lack of women in engineering overall it's not surprising there are so few here. The number of female engineers is vanishingly small, and real engineering - understanding how it works at the deepest level, what can go wrong, how to faultfind and fix it - takes skills women rarely develop and a mindset we aren't encouraged to learn. I wish you much luck on your quest, but it isn't ever going to be easy. It's not easy for the guys either, but I hope you're used to male-dominated environments. Most engineers are more concerned with attitude and results than gender, though - prove yourself capable, logical, sensible and eager to learn and gender will make little difference even if you decide that pink overalls are perfect and the crew room needs flowers.
Do be aware that getting into the university course doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be able to get a trainee job for the hands-on experience at the end of it. Times are tough; by the time you finish, hopefully things will have picked up again, but even then this is a hugely competitive industry. With the university course you'll have found the ladder, but you still need to get your foot on the bottom rung - and everyone you graduate with knows where the ladder is too.
The older generation always slates the younger generation, particularly the ones that think a degree is anything other than a licence to learn. It's not personal. After having heard some of the gaffes made by people with degrees out in the wider engineering world, they're absolutely and entirely justified in looking sideways at people with clean hands and bits of paper. It's not because you're female, it's because to them you don't understand how the real world works (which, fresh out of hands-off training, you don't). However, if you can prove that you're good for something useful and not just good at passing exams, they'll let you know you're okay, and sooner or later you'll be invited to give your opinion about this pillock fresh out of school who thinks he (or she) knows it all while not having the sense to come in out of the rain.
Attitude is everything, and being able to get bits of paper does not make an engineer - a lot of engineers can't pass exams, but that doesn't make them any less knowledgeable or competent. Being an engineer takes a logical mind, a willingness to learn, the capacity to acknowledge mistakes and the ability to work with others at the very least; in aviation, it takes diligence and precision as well, whether you're on the line, in the hangar, in the overhaul shop or in the office.
bh_ame, a BEng can't hurt. It's proof of potential that the outside world understands.