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Current women engineers become a flight risk when they experience a career plateau with few advancement opportunities, poor treatment by managers and co-workers and a culture that stresses taking work home or working on weekends with no support for managing multiple life roles,» Fouad said.
Not exact matches
That paucity of
women in
engineering roles likely contributed to the sexist environment described by former employee Susan Fowler, whose damning Feb. 19 blog post created Uber's
current firestorm.
Current IET Young
Woman Engineer of the Year, Naomi Mitchison, said: «I chose
engineering because having done Maths and Physics at school it seemed like an interesting way to put those subjects to good use, while doing something a bit unusual and different.
This exposure can happen through assigned biographical readings about
women scientists, mathematicians, or
engineers; calling attention to
current events highlighting the achievements of
women in math and science; and by making students aware of the number of
women who receive advanced degrees in math and science fields each year.
Ochoa is not only the first Hispanic
woman in space but also an
engineer with several patents under her belt, as well as the
current director of the Johnson Space Center.