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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Female Engineers"”.
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Gender Bias in Engineering: Does More Contact with Female Engineers Reduce Bias?
… students, and to determine if contact with female engineers helps reduce gender bias. To assess this, two versions of a resume, one with a female's name and one with a male's name, were given to senior mechanical engineering students (n=225) to establish if they would rate the male applicant …
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The social construction of female engineers : a qualitative case study of engineering education
… in-depth, tape-recorded interviews with male and female students at the first and fourth year levels of study and with students who transferred to other disciplines. Data collection took place between September, 1996 and April, 1998. Major findings point to a chilly climate in the college of …
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Gender difference in professional developmental relationships within male and female-dominated professions
… relationship functions between males and females and between nurses and non-nurses. Quantification of the professional development relationship functions was accomplished using a demographic scale and the Professional Developmental Relationship Questionnaire (PDRQ), a 45-item, 5-point, …
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Job involvement of male and female graduate engineers in South Africa
… the job involvement of a sample of 125 graduate engineers in South Africa. In particular, whether gender differences existed in the level of job involvement, as well as in the factors influencing job involvement (N = 68 males; N = 57 females). The specific factors investigated were biographic …
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The Shared Experiences of Positive Teacher-Student Relationships Among Successful Black and Latina Engineers: A Phenomenological Study
… relationships among Black and Latina engineers who achieved career success. Participants included 13 Black and Latina female engineers who attended public K-12 schools in the United States, and have a self-perception of attaining career success. The research question for this study …
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A Systems Approach to Understanding Gender Inequity in Engineering
… input from a set of interviewees comprised of female engineers. Defining the relationships between many seemingly separate issues may lend insights into how academic institutions, corporations, and society as a whole may be able to implement some staged solution sets to improve gender parity …
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The Evolution of Cypriot women in society and their increased participation in Civil Engineering
… differences in the employment conditions of female Engineers in comparison to male Engineers.<br/><br/>This detailed study would have enabled the researcher to establish the factors which account for the relatively low participation of women in traditionally male-dominated areas of …
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Predicting the Academic Success of Female Engineering Students During the First Year of College Using the SAT and Non-Cognitive Variables
… the academic achievement of first year female engineering students. Ancis and Sedlacek (1997) studied non-cognitive variables with a general population of undergraduate women. Their study validated the NCQ as a predictor of academic success for women students. The present study extends …
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PHD and Childbearing? - Work-life Balance of Female PHD Students in the Field of Engineering
… to explore the work-life balance (WLB) of young female engineers during their PhD studies. Obstacles to WLB in high-status occupations can be magnified in the male-dominated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, where women are significantly underrepresented. While …