Women’s Reasons for Leaving the Engineering Field

Among the different Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields, engineering continues to have one of the highest rates of attrition (Hewlett et al., 2008). The turnover rate for women engineers from engineering fields is even higher than for men (Frehill, 2010). Despite increased efforts from...

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Main Authors: Nadya A. Fouad, Wen-Hsin Chang, Min Wan, Romila Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00875/full