Barriers Preventing Women from Enrolling in Construction Management Programs
Barriers Preventing Women from Enrolling in Construction Management Programs
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阻碍女性参加建筑管理项目的障碍
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2013
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通讯作者：
Kandice Nietfeld
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作者：
Stephen Sewalk;Kandice Nietfeld
建筑业并没有吸引大量的妇女加入其劳动力队伍。然而，由于该领域的潜在预期增长，建筑公司将需要更多的女性来满足他们的劳动力需求。关于建筑行业中的女性以及阻止她们进入该行业的因素已经做了很多研究，然而，本文从学术方面进行了研究，并询问是什么因素阻碍了更多女性在大学中选择建筑管理专业。我们通过联系所有的建筑联合学院（ASC）并询问有关其项目的问题来开展这项研究，试图发现任何相关性，从而为吸引更多女性参加大学水平的建筑管理项目提供信息。不幸的是，我们只发现女性平均入学人数与女性教师数量、女性支持团体的可用性和女性毕业率之间存在很少的正相关。我们认为，阻碍更多女性从事建筑管理职业的最大因素是对该行业的看法和刻板印象，该行业需要专注于改变这些看法。
The construction industry does not attract significant numbers of women to its labor force. However, due to potential expected growth in the field, construction companies will need more women to meet their labor needs. Much research has been done on women in the construction industry and factors preventing them from entering the industry, however, this article examines the academic side and ask what factors are preventing more women from choosing construction management as a major in college. We undertook this study by contacting all of the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) and asking questions regarding their programs in an attempt to discover any correlations that would provide information on approaches to attract more women to college-level construction management programs. Unfortunately, we only found a few small positive correlations between average enrollment of women and number of women faculty, availability of women support groups, and graduation rates of women. We believe the biggest factors acting as barriers to more women pursuing construction management as a career are the perceptions and stereotypes of the industry and that the industry needs to focus on changing those perceptions.