Regional, institutional, and departmental factors associated with gender diversity among BS-level chemical and electrical engineering graduates

Laura R Jarboe

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-14

Abstract: Engineering remains the least gender diverse of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Chemical engineering (ChE) and electrical engineering (EE) are exemplars of relatively high and low gender diversity, respectively. Here, we investigate departmental, institutional, and regional factors associated with gender diversity among BS graduates within the US, 2010–2016. For both fields, gender diversity was significantly higher at private institutions (p

Date: 2019
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