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Women in engineering in the United States

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Statistics - USA

Female participation in engineering and the sciences has increased since the 1960s, but is still not equally representative. The trend of increasing representation has followed a pattern that is termed the leaky pipeline: there have been greater increases in the proportion of women getting engineering bachelors degrees than any other possible stage of development. The percentage of female graduate students in engineering in 2001 was 20%.[1] Between graduate and doctoral degrees, there is another drop in the representation of women, although there is still a positive trend. Doctoral degrees awarded to women in engineering increased from 11.6% to 17.6% of total degrees awarded between 1995 and 2004.[2] The workforce remains as the area of highest under representation for women; only 11% of the engineering workforce in 2003 were women.[3]


Professional societies

Most of these professional societies provide women with support, professional development and networking opportunities, and advocate for women. There is a longer list of supporting organizations under the external links section.

Women engineers

See the Category:Women engineers to see biographies of women engineers on wikipedia. Some of the external links below also contain biographies of women engineers. The Archive of Women in Science and Engineering is trying to record and catalog the work of women engineers.[4]

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Data on Women in S&E p. 4, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
  2. ^ Table 2. Doctorates awarded to women, by field of study: 1995–2004 in S&E Doctorate Awards: 2004, National Science Foundation.
  3. ^ TABLE H-5. Employed scientists and engineers, by occupation, highest degree level, and sex: 2006 in Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering (January 2009), National Science Foundation.
  4. ^ Archives of Women in Science and Engineering : Mission StatementIowa State university.
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