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2 Career Outcomes of Women Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients
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... It follows multiple • What factors help explain these observed career cohorts of students over time, drawing its initial cohorts from outcomes? the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS)
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... Years since graduation FIGURE 2-1 Labor force participation rate by gender for engineering bachelor's degree recipients, Cohort 1 of the National Center for Education Statistics Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study.
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... The decline in the percent retained from four to ten years after graduation is statistically significant at the 5 percent level for both men and women. Source: National Center for Education Statistics.
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... The participation regression model was used to deter mine the factors or characteristics related to whether women Multiple Regression Results graduates with a degree in either engineering or another To interpret the B&B data and shed light on the reasons "career-oriented" major are participating in the labor force. for observed differences in career outcomes, Greenfield con- The model revealed that women engineering graduates in ducted logistic regression analyses.
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... In Cohort 3 both Fifteen Predictors Considered in the Regression Model Gender Undergraduate debt Citizenship Status Age at graduation Undergraduate institution (Carnegie Spousal employment Classification) Ethnicity Parental education Spousal income Undergraduate GPA Marital status Graduate degree Undergraduate degree specialty/subfield Parental status Employment status Note: Not all predictors were included in the final set of models.
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... . Was it mostly Labor, suggested comparing the rates at which men and a response to job market conditions, or were there other reawomen leave engineering with the rates for other fields.
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