Synthesis of K-12 outreach data on women in engineering

Emily Barnes, Nicholas Lenzi, Katherine Nelson
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings   unpublished
Introduction The percentage of women that are employed as engineers (14.5% as of 2015) has gone up since 1985, when women made up only 5.7% of the engineering population [1]. Be that as it may, the percentage of women in engineering has plateaued between 13-15% since the early 2000s and severely underrepresents the percentage of women that make up the US population [2, 3] . Given the lagging and plateaued underrepresentation of women in engineering, questions have emerged that are aimed at both
more » ... understanding why women choose different fields and determining what can be done about to get them into engineering [4] .
doi:10.18260/1-2--28898 fatcat:i4yy5ydtezagjekndh45eacrdu