Career Choices of Female Engineers: A Summary of a Workshop

by Committee on Women in Science Engineering and Medicine, National Research Council, Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor S Degree Recipients, et al.

Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing engineers in the United States. What factors influence women graduates' decisions to enter the engineering workforce and either to stay in or leave the field as their careers progress? Researchers are both tapping existing data and fielding new surveys to help answer these questions. On April 24, 2013,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309305810
• ISBN13: 9780309305815
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 10.8"