Enrollment and Effectiveness of 「Women Sensitivity Ergonomics」 Course

Abstract

Women in the predominantly male oriented college of engineering which is afflicted by the high dropout rate and the low employment rate of coeds in their majoring fields because of the gender sensitivity differences. In order to resolve the related problems Korea government made a WISET(Women in Science Engineering and Technology) program since 2006. And P University has been actively engaged in a movement to raise the gender sensitivity Engineering and to train women engineers for highly qualified work force. As part of the movement a subject called ｢Women sensitive Engineering｣ or ｢Women Sensitivity Ergonomics in daily life｣ that focuses on the gender sensitivity are effective to reduce the dropout rate and to land a job inside their fields. The title of established subject in P university was ｢Women Sensitivity Ergonomics in our Daily Life｣ as well. This study was conducted a survey of the coeds who have completed the ｢Women sensitive Engineering｣ or ｢Women sensitive Ergonomics｣ course to evaluate the degree of satisfaction ergonomics not taken the course. The results showed statistically significant responses indicating that both groups of coeds aware the gender sensitivity differences to Engineering and learned the optimization skill of gender sensitivity ergonomics by this ｢Women sensitive Engineering｣ subject. Also factor analysis for student’s enrollment this new subject was conducted in order to search the student’s satisfaction. This may lay the foundation to offer other major engineering courses for juniors and seniors that emphasize the gender sensitivity differences and ergonomics in Engineering. And we could be expected the decreasing the women students dropout rate from Engineering related fields by studying this subject we develope