A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?
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A survey of 251 women engineers who graduated from college in the 1970s sheds light on the experiences of these professional pioneers.
Women enrolled in STEM courses are often more confident than men, but it hasn’t translated into career success and they are still very much a minority. More needs to be done in workplaces and schools.
The day of remembrance and action, also called White Ribbon Day, marks the anniversary of the murders of 14 female engineering students killed in 1989 at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal.
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Curtin University
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Incoming Assistant Provost and Director, Transformation CoLab, Bond University
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Dean Learning & Teaching, Curtin University
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of History, Clarkson University
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Associate Director of the Center for Women in Technology and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Computing Education Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
