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Out of Tolerance: Women, History, & Engineering
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Women in
the Engineering Profession, Discuss reasons
for low representation |
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| jmhammer |
| Posted: 09
Mar - 07:47 pm |
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In
recent decades, women have gradually increased
their representation in most tertiary courses
such as arts, medicine and law to at least
50% of enrolled students. In engineering,
this is not the case. Women comprise only
15.3% of all enrolled engineering students
across Australia. Why are young girls not
attracted to the profession of engineering?
How can we make the engineering profession
more attractive to women? |
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| MarySexton |
| Posted: 10
Mar - 03:46 pm |
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This is an interesting question - is it a
matter of marketing the profession to the
student body in much the same way as science
does. The lack of marketing to women may
suggest that the profession is not very interested
in including women in its numbers. Does the
profession take any measures to look for
systemic discrimination in it work practices.
During the Affirmative Action Pilot employers were asked to about
the stablity of their particular workforce. While they responded
that men were the more stable, the research of their own workforce
did not bear this out. In fact it showed that the women employees
were less likely to change jobs than the men. I imagine there
are many similar misconceptions in other professions.
I guess what I am trying to say if that professions, busisness
etc operate on fale premises they are not well places to address
such things as systemic discrimination.
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