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Cassondra Batz-Barbarich; Nicole Strah; Louis Tay – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Background: Women are underrepresented in the field of engineering within academic and professional settings. Based upon premises outlined by social role theory and goal congruity theory, a key factor that contributes to this underrepresentation is a gendered societal belief that there is a disconnect between engineering (seen as more agentic, or…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Disproportionate Representation, Technical Occupations, Engineering
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Nazmul Islam; Amporn Jirattikorn – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Evidence demonstrates that women in Bangladesh are underrepresented both in engineering education and relevant career domains. This study explores the comprehensive experiences of women in their pursuit of engineering, both as a subject of study and as a career in teaching in Bangladesh. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 female undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering Education
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Sara María Yepes Zuluaga; Willer Ferney Montes Granada – Cogent Education, 2023
Due to the multiple barriers that prevent women from pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers, there is a persistent gender gap in these fields in many countries around the globe. Considering this, the purpose of this study was to compare the self-perceived employability among men and women, as well as to…
Descriptors: Engineering, Professional Personnel, Self Efficacy, Employment Qualifications
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Nicolas Dietrich; Gaëlle Lebrun; Kalyani Kentheswaran; Mathias Monnot; Patrick Loulergue; Carine Franklin; Florence Teddé-Zambelli; Chafiaa Djouadi; Sébastien Leveneur; Mallorie Tourbin; Yolaine Bessie`re; Carole Coufort-Saudejaud; Annabelle Couvert; Eric Schaer – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Women are increasingly present in the field of engineering, but despite a significant female presence, it has been found that the programs continue to make no reference to women scientists. In chemical engineering, for example, all the names of scientists mentioned in the programs belong to men only. To test this hypothesis of over-representation…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering, Engineering Education
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Mein, Erika; Convertino, Christina – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
In this article, we draw on sociocultural perspectives on literacy to explore the ways in which pre-engineering students took up and made sense of engineering notebooks implemented as part of a robotics project in a first-semester university study course at a large, public Hispanic-Serving Institution. Through ethnographic methods, we uncovered…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic American Students
Brittany Arthur; Batsheva Guy; Evie Armitage; Meaghan Labarre; Sydney O'Connor – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Although there is an extensive amount of research focusing on women in engineering, the engineering field continues to experience the most gender disparity of any workforce disparities within the United States (National Science Foundation, 2018). Engineering has been labeled "the least gender-equitable profession in the United States,"…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering, Gender Differences
Janelle Renee King; Katelyn Marguerite Hitzges – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A "leaky pipeline" exists for women to obtain a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) leadership position in the United States (U.S.). A deeper dive into what was holding women back from an engineering leadership position is imperative in today's technology-driven world. Utilizing feminist theory as a theoretical lens,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Leadership Role, Engineering
Katelyn Marguerite Hitzges; Janelle Renee King – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A "leaky pipeline" exists for women to obtain a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) leadership position in the United States (U.S.). A deeper dive into what was holding women back from an engineering leadership position is imperative in today's technology-driven world. Utilizing feminist theory as a theoretical lens,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Leadership Role, Engineering
Dawn Marie Maynen – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Women faculty members have an important place in universities in the United States and are without question an elite group of highly educated professionals (Chilly Collective, 1995). Nonetheless, the number of women faculty members represented in all professorial ranks of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields remains…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Engineering, School Culture, Faculty Promotion
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Dennis, Zara R.; Wilson, Kate; Boyson, Toby; Kasmarik, Kathryn – Teaching Science, 2019
This paper presents a multi-year study on the impact of attending an engineering summer school on girls' confidence that they could become an engineer. While it is relatively easy to recognise and address tangible barriers to entering an engineering profession -- such as a lack of preparedness in terms of a mathematics or physics background --…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering Education, Engineering, Career Choice
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Beddoes, Kacey – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Despite a nearly 40-year history of research initiatives and interventions to recruit and retain women engineering students, women remain significantly underrepresented in engineering. Given the lack of progress, it seems clear that new lenses on the problem of underrepresentation warrant further attention. Higher education policies are one area…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Females, Disproportionate Representation
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Chaudhury, Zariff; Hossain, Ziarat; Gordon, E. Katherine – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2019
The primary objectives of this study were to assess engineering students' and professional engineers' perceptions of cultural diversity in undergraduate engineering course curriculum, gender and ethnicity-specific access to the engineering field, and the professional engineering work environment in the United States. The sample consisted of 132…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
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Krause, Liesl A.; Strimel, Greg J.; Rispoli, Joseph – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2018
Broadening participation in STEM education programs and boosting the STEM workforce, specifically increasing interest in engineering, has been a growing focus of the U.S. education system (Lawrence & Mancus, 2012; Strimel, Grubbs, & Wells, 2017). The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects overall STEM employment to grow by 8.9% from 2014 to…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Engineering, Engineering Education, Social Responsibility
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Sparks, David M. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the term intersectional trap. This is defined as the act of saying blanket statements to describe a race or group of individuals without considering variations of experience within the population. The paper will end with recommendations for research focusing on qualitative studies that explore the lived…
Descriptors: Career Development, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Females
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Gibson, Sheree L.; Espino, Michelle M. – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2016
Despite the growing research that outlines the experiences of Blacks and women undergraduates in engineering, little is known about Black women in this field. The purpose of this qualitative study was to uncover how eight Black undergraduate women in engineering understood their race and gender identities in a culture that can be oppressive to…
Descriptors: Females, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Qualitative Research
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