Sentences with phrase «more women engineers»

I think that a lot of women are put off by the fact that they don't see more women engineers, although there's nothing in engineering that a woman can't do.

Two years later, most companies are not faring much better: Consider that Facebook, which has been making an aggressive push to hire more women engineers and people of color, revealed last month that just 2 percent of its U.S. work force is black and only 4 percent is Hispanic.

Not exact matches

Georgia Tech graduates more engineers than MIT and Carnegie Mellon combined, and more women and black engineers than any other university, according to Moddelmog.

«Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry,» Hedlund commented.

Women's participation in business and MBA programs has grown more than five-fold since the 1970s, and the increase in the number of engineering degrees granted to women has grown almost tenWomen's participation in business and MBA programs has grown more than five-fold since the 1970s, and the increase in the number of engineering degrees granted to women has grown almost tenwomen has grown almost tenfold.

The move comes amid stiff competition for skilled engineers, and as many of the biggest firms try to diversify their male - dominated ranks to include and appeal to more women.

-- Debbie Sterling, Founder of GoldieBlox Read more: How One Young Entrepreneur's Quest to Encourage Women Engineers Led Her to GoldieBlox

By investing in the education of women in tech, the company is not only creating a more diverse applicant pool but also attracting female engineers through its exemplary commitment to education and inclusion.

Ivanka Trump, leading her father's delegation to a Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India, on Wednesday called for more women to enter engineering and the sciences.

What's more, she's also using the day to teach her students about the lack of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

By madness, Saintil was referring to the firestorm created by the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more women.

According to PayScale's results at least, «Men tend to go into engineering, computer science, management roles and director roles more so than women, and those jobs see fairly consistent pay increases year in and year out,» Bardaro says.

While I'm sure that's true, it doesn't tell us any more than if Google said, «We have many women engineers.»

I want to see more women becoming software developers and engineers.

Sorry, if this comes off as some super-sensitive defensive reaction, it just struck me really odd as I've only ever heard one person phrase the differences between men and women quite that way before and it was a man who was also an engineer which he kept bringing up to point out that that made him more analytical than any woman was capable of (apparently they don't have women engineers where he comes from).

If only we had more woman scientists and engineers, because if we did I'm positive we would we also have detachable, indestructible silicone nipples, or breast pumps that don't, you know, suck.

This includes encouraging more women to become engineers and growing the number of engineering apprentices.

With examples from countries in Asia and Africa, the report says that men in textbooks are more likely to be depicted as business leaders, shopkeepers, engineers, scientists and politicians, while women remain likely to be seen in roles such as cooking or child care.

Raking in even more cash, Madu's own companies — which were certified minority - and / or women - owned business enterprises — were awarded subcontracts by the very engineering firms that were allegedly bribing him.

The IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards recognise and promote women in engineering and technology and encourage more women to join the profession.

Schulz, a retired engineer who is not a lawyer, is suing Silver, contending the speaker shouldn't have used taxpayer dollars to pay more than $ 103,000 to women who were allegedly harassed by former Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

More specifically, it focuses on representation of women in governance within CCPE; enhancing youth awareness of engineering careers; improving the work environment and career path choices for women engineers, including flexible work options and equitable compensation; and increasing public and professional awareness of the contribution of women engineers.

Women in science have made many advances in recent years, but as delegates at the recent 12th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES12) discussed, much more work needs to be done to attract and retain women, particularly in areas such as engineeWomen in science have made many advances in recent years, but as delegates at the recent 12th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES12) discussed, much more work needs to be done to attract and retain women, particularly in areas such as engineeWomen Engineers and Scientists (ICWES12) discussed, much more work needs to be done to attract and retain women, particularly in areas such as engineewomen, particularly in areas such as engineering.

The need to encourage more women to enter engineering careers and to retain those women once they?re in has become a growing concern for CCPE.

In engineering, men earn 20 % more than women.

At the post-doctoral level, men outnumber women more than four to one in engineering and by almost as much in the physical and mathematical sciences.

Ben Latigo, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC)-- the public university for D.C. residents, with a predominantly African - American enrollment — believes the new GI Bill will broaden the ethnic diversity of the sciences and engineering professions and bring more women into these fields.

I also think being a woman and having a family now, compared to the past, is much more accepted in academia and in engineering.

«We're pleased to play a role in the university's overall effort to engage more women in science, technology, engineering and math.»

A 2014 study by Nilanjana Dasgupta, a social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that undergraduate women in engineering participate more and show less anxiety in solving problems in a group if they comprise a majority in their study group.

A new study finds that gender parity in small group settings helps young women engineers feel more confident as they pursue a challenge.

When the groups were 50 or 75 percent women, the participants also reported that they were more likely to continue on in engineering.

The results are small step toward identifying more interventions that help women stay in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields.

This study is specific to women who have already chosen engineering, she notes, so the participants probably place more importance on a sense of belonging.

«We need to get more women into leadership roles in the science and engineering enterprise» throughout the world, Richmond said in an interview after the summit, «and sometimes this will mean women will be going to uncomfortable places of speaking out and using other skills that they might not be comfortable doing in their countries.»

While master's degrees awarded to women hovered at 22.6 percent in 2010, a slight dip from 2008 and 2009 levels, bachelor's degrees among women climbed to 18.1 percent, and more engineering doctorates - 22.9 percent - were awarded to women than any time in the past, according to the American Society for Engineering Education.

Just yesterday, The White House Council on Women and Girls held this event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to encourage more girls to get involved in science, engineering, technology and math.

I chose environmental engineering as opposed to environmental science because I wanted a math - and - modeling focus on the hydrologic sciences... and because, quite frankly, more full graduate scholarships were available for women engineers than for women scientists.

Women who left engineering more than five years ago said their decision was due to caregiving responsibilities (17 percent), no opportunities for advancement (12 percent) and lost interest in engineering (12 percent).

The U.S. National Science Foundation has a long way to go in attracting more minority students and women into science and engineering doctoral programs, according to a new report on one of NSF's flagship training programs.

A recent US study of more than 5500 women with engineering degrees found that of those who had started work in the sector and then left it, a fifth did so because they didn't like the workplace climate or their boss.

Silver believes the shortfall is a symptom of a more worrying problem: the persistent absence of women in senior engineering positions.

«For her to become president of NAS at this time, when there is a lot of talk about getting more women and minorities into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, here is an exemplary role model to those who might see themselves in those realms,» McEntee said.

Agency seeks fresh ideas on attracting more women, minorities, and those underrepresented in science and engineering

Women overall might have a higher average salary if more of them worked in the higher paying fields, such as engineering or physics.

More groups are going to bat for underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, the most recent being a Sloan Foundation pretenure faculty fellowship program, a National Academy of Engineering summit on women in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technowomen in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and TechnoWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology.

Her dissertation, More Than Just Lab Partners: Women Scientists and Engineers Married to and Partnered with Other Scientists and Engineers, examined how women scientists» relationships with other scientists affect both their professional and personal lWomen Scientists and Engineers Married to and Partnered with Other Scientists and Engineers, examined how women scientists» relationships with other scientists affect both their professional and personal lwomen scientists» relationships with other scientists affect both their professional and personal lives.

D. pipeline in science and engineering fields no longer leaks more women than men as it did in the past.

Scholars from diverse fields have long proposed that interlocking factors such as cognitive abilities, discrimination and interests may cause more women than men to leave the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) pipeline after entering college.

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).