Title Career choices of female engineers : a summary of a workshop / 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

Published Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 92 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, 1 color map Contents Career Outcomes of Women Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients -- Career Outcomes of Women Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients -- Retaining Technical Talent: Data Needs, Critical Transitions, and Career Pathways -- Technical Women in Small and Medium Businesses -- Closing Discussion -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: List of Participants -- Appendix C: Biographies of Speakers -- Appendix D:Stemming the Tide: Why Women Engineers Stay in, or Leave, the Engineering Profession -- Appendix E: Women in IT: RECRUIT THEM & RETAIN THEM -- Appendix F: Presentation Slides on Career Outcomes of Women Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients 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."--Publisher's description Notes Print version record Subject Women in engineering -- United States -- Congresses Women engineers -- United States -- Congresses Women in engineering -- United States -- Statistics -- Congresses Women engineers -- United States -- Statistics -- Congresses Engineering -- Vocational guidance -- United States -- Congresses Engineering -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Congresses Interdisciplinary approach in education -- United States -- Congresses Engineering -- Study and teaching Engineering -- Vocational guidance Interdisciplinary approach in education Women engineers Women in engineering United States Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients, issuing body National Academy of Engineering, issuing body. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, issuing body. ISBN 9780309305822 0309305829

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