SWE - National Survey about Engineering - (Page 15) FIFTH IN A SERIES The Society of Women Engineers National Survey about Engineering A Review of the Findings BY LISA FREHILL, PH.D., COMMISSION ON PROFESSIONALS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STAY TUNED The retention study is naturally of high interest to the engineering community because it provides information on the state of the profession and both quantifies and clarifies what many people have understood anecdotally. Based on the information provided by the study, meaningful solutions and best practices can be established and shared. Look for the sixth and final installment of this series in the Fall 2008 issue of SWE, available in late August. I n 2005 the SWE Corporate Partnership Council provided generous support to the Society to conduct another study like one that had been done in the early 1990s. The SWE Retention Study collected data from more than 6,000 bachelor’s and master’s graduates of 25 engineering schools (24 U.S. and one Canadian) to explore why people left the field after earning their bachelor’s degrees. A series of three articles appeared in SWE Magazine last year — here we have reproduced a few of the charts and findings that were presented in those articles. The first chart shows that even upon graduation, there is a gap in women’s and men’s participation in engineering: Less than 71 percent of men but only 61 percent of women who responded to the SWE Retention Study indicated they were employed as an engineer within the first three years of college. By the time we look at people who graduated 18-20 years prior to the survey, only about one-third of women but about half of the men were still in engineering jobs. The pair of charts below show that just 48 percent of women were still in engineering jobs, with men a little more likely to be employed as engineers. Nearly onefourth of women were either unemployed, not in the labor force, or employed in jobs they saw as very different from engineering. Only 11 percent of men were in these same types of positions. SWE SUMMER 2008 15 Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of SWE - National Survey about Engineering SWE - National Survey about Engineering Contents Introduction Are Women More or Less Likely than Men to be Retained in Engineering after College? Is the Engineering Workplace “Warming” for Women? Why Do Women Leave the Engineering Work Force? The Leaky Science and Engineering Pipeline: How Can We Retain More Women in Academia and Industry? Making Our Mark: Ensuring the Retention Study Results Reach the Right Audience A Review of the Findings Engineering Retention and Gender: Cross-Disciplinary Differences SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council SWE - National Survey about Engineering SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Contents (Page Cover1) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Contents (Page Cover2) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Introduction (Page 1) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Are Women More or Less Likely than Men to be Retained in Engineering after College? (Page 2) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Are Women More or Less Likely than Men to be Retained in Engineering after College? (Page 3) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Are Women More or Less Likely than Men to be Retained in Engineering after College? (Page 4) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Is the Engineering Workplace “Warming” for Women? (Page 5) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Is the Engineering Workplace “Warming” for Women? (Page 6) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Is the Engineering Workplace “Warming” for Women? (Page 7) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Why Do Women Leave the Engineering Work Force? (Page 8) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Why Do Women Leave the Engineering Work Force? (Page 9) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Why Do Women Leave the Engineering Work Force? (Page 10) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - The Leaky Science and Engineering Pipeline: How Can We Retain More Women in Academia and Industry? (Page 11) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - The Leaky Science and Engineering Pipeline: How Can We Retain More Women in Academia and Industry? (Page 12) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Making Our Mark: Ensuring the Retention Study Results Reach the Right Audience (Page 13) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Making Our Mark: Ensuring the Retention Study Results Reach the Right Audience (Page 14) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - A Review of the Findings (Page 15) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - A Review of the Findings (Page 16) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Engineering Retention and Gender: Cross-Disciplinary Differences (Page 17) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Engineering Retention and Gender: Cross-Disciplinary Differences (Page 18) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - Engineering Retention and Gender: Cross-Disciplinary Differences (Page 19) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 20) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 21) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 22) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 23) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 24) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 25) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 26) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 27) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 28) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 29) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page 30) SWE - National Survey about Engineering - SWE Retention Study and Work/Life Balance Exclusive to the Corporate Partnership Council (Page Cover4) http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring13 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/winter13 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/conference12 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/fall12 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring12 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/winter12 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/60thanniversary http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/conference2011 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/fall11 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/summer2011 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/summer11 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring11 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/winter11 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/conference2010 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/fall10 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/summer10 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring10 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/winter10 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/conference09 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/fall09 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/nationalsurveyengineering http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/summer09 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring09 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/winter09 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/conference08 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/fall08 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/summer08 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring08 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/winter08 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/summer07 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring07 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/winter07 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/fall06 http://www.nxtbookMEDIA.com
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