Gender Equity in Science and Engineering

Bilimoria, Diana; Liang, Xiangfen

doi:10.4324/9780203149133

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“…This study aligns with the work of other researchers who suggest organizational changes are necessary to retain women in the STEM professions (National Research Council, 2007 ; Bilimoria et al, 2008 ; Hewlett et al, 2008 ; Fouad and Singh, 2011 ; Bilimoria and Liang, 2012 ). Organizations should recognize the compelling business case associated with increasing gender diversity at all levels of the organizations including the number of women in senior leadership (Catalyst, 2004 ; Ernst and Young, 2009 ; McKinsey and Company, 2010 ).…”

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Personal vision: enhancing work engagement and the retention of women in the engineering profession

Buse

Bilimoria

2014

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines how personal vision enhances work engagement and the retention of women in the engineering profession. Using a mixed method approach to understand the factors related to the retention of women in the engineering profession, we first interviewed women who persisted and women who opted out of the profession (Buse and Bilimoria, 2014). In these rich stories, we found that women who persisted had a personal vision that included their profession, and that this personal vision enabled them to overcome the bias, barriers and discrimination in the engineering workplace. To validate this finding on a larger population, we developed a scale to measure one's personal vision conceptualized as the ideal self (Boyatzis and Akrivou, 2006). The measure was tested in a pilot study and then used in a study of 495 women with engineering degrees. The findings validate that the ideal self is comprised of self-efficacy, hope, optimism and core identity. For these women, the ideal self directly impacts work engagement and work engagement directly impacts career commitment to engineering. The findings add to extant theory related to the role of personal vision and intentional change theory. From a practical perspective, these findings will aid efforts to retain women in engineering and other STEM professions.

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Personal vision: enhancing work engagement and the retention of women in the engineering profession

Buse

Bilimoria

2014

Front. Psychol.

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“…Our goal in this research is similar to the goal of the NSF ADVANCE program, which is to "fix the system" not "fix the women." 6 Our study contributes to understandings of navigational capital by illuminating how Pelleligible students glean non-traditional resources from their lives and use them to navigate institutions of higher education in successful pursuit of engineering degrees.…”

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“…9 This approach was inspired by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program, which was designed to not only help individual female scientists and engineers navigate institutions of knowledge production, but also to transform STEM fields at a systemic level. 6 Toward this end, this research seeks to illuminate the reproduction of class inequalities in engineering higher education from the perspectives and experiences of Pell-eligible students.…”

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Active Agents and Fictive Kin: Learning From Pell-Eligible Engineering Students' Class Standpoint

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Riskin

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J Women Minor Scien Eng

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She investigates the historical and cultural dimensions of underrepresented groups' participation in science, technology and engineering and the reasons why white males still dominate these fields. Prof. Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington Eve Riskin received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and her graduate degrees in EE from Stanford. Since 1990, she has been in the EE Department at the University of Washington where she is now Associate Dean of Diversity and Access in the College of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change. With ADVANCE, she works on mentoring and leadership development programs for women faculty in SEM. Her research interests include image compression and image processing, with a focus on developing video compression algorithms to allow for cell-phone transmission of American Sign Language.

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“…One such program, NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) program [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] focuses on methods to achieve institutional change. Bilimoria and Liang report on the results of this program, and assert that in order to be effective, efforts must be wide-ranging, widereaching, and simultaneous, including activities such as "awareness creation, skill building, empowerment, leadership development, process improvements, new policy creation, and structural changes" [27]. A key component of NSF ADVANCE IT is the research-driven approach, which involves tracking inclusion factors, evaluating effectiveness of efforts, and the improvement of data collection and analysis of these efforts [28] to affect institutional change.…”

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Broadening Participation: A Report on a Series of Workshops Aimed at Building Community and Increasing the Number of Women and Minorities in Engineering Design

Reid

Terpenny

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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In May 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 2007. Her work has focused on studying the engineering design team process through cognitive studies. Her research is now moving toward exploring analogical inspiration and building computational design tools to aid designers during the engineering design process.

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Gender Equity in Science and Engineering

Cited by 57 publications

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Personal vision: enhancing work engagement and the retention of women in the engineering profession

Personal vision: enhancing work engagement and the retention of women in the engineering profession

Active Agents and Fictive Kin: Learning From Pell-Eligible Engineering Students' Class Standpoint

Broadening Participation: A Report on a Series of Workshops Aimed at Building Community and Increasing the Number of Women and Minorities in Engineering Design

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