“…Given Qatar's significant focus on "enhancing women's role and empowerment through education and job creation" [3] and the importance of Qatar's construction, oil, and gas industry sectors, "the nurturing of female engineers is a task of high importance" [9, p. 7] to the State. However, the experiences of female engineers in Qatar have been only marginally researched [9][10][11] and the experiences of new female graduates during the recruitment and hiring stage has not been given true consideration. It is important to understand women's introductory experiences with industry in order to understand more broadly how attractive the engineering field is for women in Qatar.…”