Gender Typicality and Engineering Attachment: Examining the Viewpoints of Women College Engineers and Variation by
Ursula Nguyen1, Catherine Riegle-Crumb2
1Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 840 N 14th St., Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Abstract:
Women remain under-represented in many STEM occupations, including in the high-status and lucrative field of engineering. This study focuses on women who have chosen to enter this men-dominated field, to consider whether and how feelings of gender typicality predict their attachment to the field. Specifically, utilizing a U.S. sample of approximately 800 women college engineers from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds, we build on emerging research on gender typicality to distinguish perceptions of feminine typicality as well as masculine typicality. Subsequently, we consider whether these perceptions have implications for their attachment to engineering, including their engineering identity as well as their certainty of staying in the field. Importantly, in doing so, we consider potential racial/ethnic variations in these relationships.
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