Career choices of female engineers : a summary of a workshop

Responsibility: Sara Frueh, rapporteur ; Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs, National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council of the National Academies.
Publication: Washington, D.C. The National Academies Press, [2014]
Copyright notice: ©2014
Physical description: x, 92 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

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Contributor: Frueh, Sara, rapporteur.; National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients.; National Academy of Engineering.; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1 Front Matter
2 1 Introduction
3 2 Career Outcomes of Women Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients
4 3 Career Outcomes of Women Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients
5 4 Retaining Technical Talent: Data Needs, Critical Transitions, and Career Pathways
6 5 Technical Women in Small and Medium Businesses
7 6 Closing Discussion
8 Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
9 Appendix B: List of Participants
10 Appendix C: Biographies of Speakers
11 Appendix D:Stemming the Tide: Why Women Engineers Stay in, or Leave, the Engineering Profession
12 Appendix E: Women in IT: RECRUIT THEM & RETAIN THEM
13 Appendix F: Presentation Slides on Career Outcomes of Women Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Publisher's Summary

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, the National Research Council Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore emerging research and to discuss career pathways and outcomes for women who have received bachelor's degrees in engineering. Participants included academic researchers and representatives from the Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, and Census Bureau, as well as several engineering professional societies. Career Choices of Female Engineers summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)