Abstract:U.S. women continue to be underrepresented in engineering. Based on seven years of longitudinal, qualitative data on high school-to-college pathways of high-achieving young women (n = 57)-many of whom were women of color from low-income families and all of whom expressed interest in engineering- we examine the economic, social, and cultural capital that affected their persistence in
engineering, and we introduce the concept of "engineering capital." In this article, we focus on seven of these young wom… Show more
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