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  • Engineering Education Research
  • Social Sciences in STEM

Background:

  • Attracting women to engineering remains a persistent challenge.
  • Student perceptions of engineering influence career choices.
  • Understanding gender differences in professional practice affinities is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate gender disparities in affinity towards core engineering professional practices.
  • To determine if these affinity differences contribute to the gender gap in engineering professional identity.
  • To explore gender-specific predictors of professional identification.

Main Methods:

  • Survey administered to 2,256 undergraduate engineering students across three majors.
  • Statistical analysis of gender differences in affinities for six professional practices.
  • Multivariate regression to assess the contribution of practice affinities to professional identification.

Main Results:

  • Significant gender differences were found in affinities for five of six engineering practices.
  • The gender gap in engineering professional identification is partly explained by these affinity differences.
  • Affinity for framing and solving problems was a stronger predictor for women's professional identification.

Conclusions:

  • Gendered affinities towards engineering practices play a role in the underrepresentation of women.
  • Interventions aimed at enhancing affinity for specific practices may help close the gender gap.
  • Tailoring approaches to foster problem-solving affinity could particularly benefit female students.