Workplace Climate for First-Generation Engineering Faculty: Intersectional Analyses with Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Background

A critical examination of first-generation faculty scholarship: Demonstrating the need for intersectional, empirical analysis.

“…The academy’s emphasis on individualism and self-promotion conflicts with the values of collectivism and humility some FGF are taught at home (e.g., Anderson, 1984; Edwards, 1995; Kiyama & Gonzales, 2019; López Figueroa, 2019; Oliva & Nevarez, 2019; Rodríguez Coss, 2020). This conflict is felt most acutely in the insistence on individual self-promotion, which FGF ascribe to middle-class, male, and/or White values that overemphasize individual effort (Aldridge et al, 2022; Reddin, 2012; Zarate, 2022). For example, one FGF explained that the promotion process advances a “dishonest notion that one’s success singularly manifests and results from the ability to be self-made” (López Figueroa, 2019, p. 56).…”

Interplay of Gender and Nationality in the Early Careers of Finnish Engineering Doctoral Graduates

“…The effect of gender on engineering careers has been an interest of researchers for a long time, yet there seems to be a shortage of studies revealing the way gender interplays with other categories [1]. Most of the recent intersectional research on engineering seems to focus on the interplay of gender and race [2], [3], [4], but also the intersection of gender with the socioeconomic situation [5], [6], sexual orientation [7], family situation [8], [9], and age [10] has been investigated. Much of the research on women in engineering seems to be conducted in the North American context [1].…”