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4 Retaining Technical Talent: Data Needs, Critical Transitions, and Career Pathways
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... They Perry and his colleagues also realized that the fact that saw that since 2005 the number of undergraduate women most women engineers are in civil engineering, followed Total Full-time/part-time Enrollment in US Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Programs, 2005-2012 140000 19.0% 121457 120000 17.0% 110492 103851 98938 15.0% 100000 92338 87074 89089 85465 13.0% 80000 11.0% 60000 9.0% 7.0% 40000 5.0% 20000 11859 14377 10770 12820 3.0% 9194 9229 9353 9780 0 1.0% 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total FT/PT ME Enrollment Total FT/PT ME Women Enrollment Percentage of Women Enrolled in ME FIGURE 4-1 Enrollment in Full-time (FT) and Part-time (PT)
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... Noting the limitations posed by the small sample sizes In response, Cohoon cited studies of engineering in 32 in the B&B survey, Jennifer Hunt from the Department of countries1 and of computing,2 and a 34-country study showLabor wondered about appealing to the B&B surveyors to ing that interest in math-based fields or careers at the 8th either oversample in science and engineering or increase the grade level predicts women's participation in fields such as sample size, although she acknowledged that in these austere times that might not be likely. Perry suggested that ASME 1 Charles, Maria, and Karen Bradley.
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... More • the largest population awarded MS degrees in engi- over, once a decade NSF collects information on all college neering, and graduates -- engineers, scientists, and those in nonscience • the largest population awarded PhD degrees in fields -- thus providing data that can provide broad national engineering. context.
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... Aside from the fact that women are largely miss- Referring back to Hunt's observation about patenting, ing from mechanical and electrical engineering, which are a student said she is about to graduate with a degree in the big engineering fields that do a lot of patenting, even in mechanical engineering and that it has never entered her these fields women tend not to be in jobs that involve design mind to pursue a patent. Instead, she plans to go into a and development, the tasks most associated with patenting.
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... But when women reflect the interests, perspectives, and needs of the world's are lost disproportionately as technical creators, they do not diverse society.
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