Are women exiting engineering because men get the challenging assignments?
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#2Women are leaving engineering because men don't want women to have fun. Who honestly thinks men having fun means women don't want it?
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#3I question the method of this "study". I don't think it's a leap to say 40 undergrads writing in their journals is anecdote.
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#4Couldn't this come down more to men being conditioned to be more assertive and women being conditioned to de-escalate?
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#5> Twenty percent of engineering graduates are women—but only 13 percent of the engineering workforce is female.
>It’s not a pipeline issue
Aren't women half the population? That still sounds like a pipeline issue.
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#6I just heard another first hand account of a female computer science masters candidate dropping out shortly before completion due to sexual harassment from her supervisor and no support on the matter from the University. Interesting that the study focuses on the "fun" aspect while the journals themselves highlight unwanted advances and "creepiness" from males. There are many factors keeping women out of computer science, but rape culture seems to me to be the most serious and under-addressed one.
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#7I question the method of this "study". I don't think it's a leap to say 40 undergrads writing in their journals is anecdote.
Not every study is a double-blind random sample with statistical modeling and error bars.
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#8Wow, the comments so far are so disappointing. (When I wrote this they are all completely dismissive of this study.)
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#9> Twenty percent of engineering graduates are women—but only 13 percent of the engineering workforce is female. >It’s not a pipeline issue Aren't women half the population? That still sounds like a pipeline issue.
Not necessarily. It could be the experience of the 20% that leads to a whittling to 13% influences women to never enter the pipeline in the first place, which means the root problem isn't the pipeline but what lies at the end of it.
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#10Couldn't this come down more to men being conditioned to be more assertive and women being conditioned to de-escalate?
That wouldn't explain why men were assigned different jobs than women. ...sexist infrastructure was in place that kept female interns shuffling papers while their oftentimes less experienced male counterparts had legitimate “engineering” assignments.