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Appendix D:Stemming the Tide: Why Women Engineers Stay in, or Leave, the Engineering Profession
Appendix D:Stemming the Tide: Why Women Engineers Stay in, or Leave, the Engineering Profession
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This trend also echoes in the continued Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 is telling in the underrepresentation of women engineers in technical work- alarm the committee voiced about the lack of resources to places. What is even more concerning is that female engi- implement the recommendations, the lack of preparation neers who do enter technical workplaces, end up leaving at of K-12 students to enter science and engineering careers, a rate that's four times as much as their male counterparts the role of science and engineering in creating new jobs to (SWE, 2007)
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technological competi Who Stay and Those Who Leave tiveness and to national security, to help understand factors that will help engineering organizations retain its highly The top majors for women currently working in engitrained female workforce and prevent avoidable turnover. neering were chemical, mechanical, civil, and electrical Against this backdrop of disturbing trends in engineering engineering.
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perceived greater opportunities for advancement within their Our results revealed that, compared to women who are cur organizations compared to women who had left engineering. rently working in engineering, women who are no longer Second, women engineers currently working in engineerworking in engineering did not have significantly different ing reported fewer work-life benefits available to them as levels of confidence in their abilities to perform engineering compared to their counterparts who had left engineering, but tasks, navigate the political environment at work, or juggle were significantly more likely to have used those benefits.
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Given level barriers such as the extent to which women engineers that engineering represents one of the professions that is lacked clarity in their roles, experienced contradictory and losing its highly trained personnel at a rate faster than comconflicting work requests and requirements, and felt over parable technical professions, the results of our study have burdened with excessive work responsibilities without com important implications for the engineering profession as a mensurate resources. whole as well as organizations that employ engineers.
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Moreover, they work hard and achievement data that can enable organizations, educators, long hours, and are committed to the engineering profession. and policymakers to thoughtfully craft initiatives and proWhat does set the current and former engineers apart is the grams that advance and optimize women's engagement in workplace climate that they encounter: whether it is sup- technical careers.
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Therefore, retaining the talents of engineers back and driving them out, but also dismantling highly skilled women engineers is not only a necessary step some invisible barriers that are powerfully entrenched in toward fulfilling President Obama's mandate for increasa chilly workplace climate that underlies corporate deci- ing our nation's competitive advantage, but it is also vital sion-making. The climate issues that women engineers con- for our nation's economic prosperity and national security.
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Toward that end, we offer help employers such as colleges, universities, and research the following suggestions for consideration by the leaderinstitutions to improve the placement, advancement, and ship of engineering societies: retention of their women scientists and engineers. • to empower women engineers to succeed and Other initiatives could help improve STEM workplaces advance within technical disciplines by providing to promote gender equality and retention in addition to offer- opportunities for leadership, skill building, and proing programs that enable re-entry and re-training for women fessional development STEM professionals.
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The results from our study Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5. Washington: National highlight some possible intervention points and offer data- Academies Press.
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