GradSWE Online Resources and Information
Facts About Women Engineers
The pipeline is leaking - women leave engineering in higher proportions than men. Widnal, S.E. (1988). Science 241, 1740-1745.
Women engineers are still paid less than men in academia. Ginther, D. (2003). Is MIT an exception? Gender pay differences in academic science. Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, 23(1), 21-26.
If you are a woman, you have to be 2.5 times as productive as a man to be judged equally productive as a man. (Wenneras, C., and Wold, A. (2001) Nepotism and Sexism in Peer-Review, in The Gender and Science Reader, eds. Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch, Routledge, New York, NY.)
At UIUC, two-thirds of women engineers report having been treated differently because of their gender during their education.http://swe.ec.uiuc.edu/diversityinitiative/
“Addressing issues of the engineering “culture” in the university environment is imperative to ensure the long-term success of women who enter the field. The difficulties women students experience in attempting to retain their intrinsic interest in science and engineering in environments that undercut their confidence, motivation, and sense of belonging in the field pose formidable obstacles to their completion of academic training and/or satisfactory performance in engineering careers.”Rinehart, J., Metz, S. S., and Woods, S. (2003). Pan-Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Meeting Summary,
National Academies Press, 195-201.
