Using Notable Women in Environmental Engineering To Dispel Misperceptions of Engineers
Using Notable Women in Environmental Engineering To Dispel Misperceptions of Engineers
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利用环境工程领域的著名女性来消除对工程师的误解
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2009
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Y. Hoh
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Y. Hoh
本文介绍了一项活动，作者与72名高中科学教师，使他们能够克服他们的刻板印象的工程师。该活动向他们介绍了环境工程领域的著名妇女，并提高了他们对这些女工程师对工程和社会的贡献的认识。研究结果显示，该活动能有效地消除高中教师对工程师的误解。通过提供有关女工程师个人生活和工作经历的详细信息，这些传记可能有助于对抗现有的女工程师文化定型观念，并开始改变缩小工程领域性别差距所需的观念。教师和教授可以以这些著名的女工程师为榜样，激励女学生成为工程师。
This paper describes an activity the author has carried out with 72 high school science teachers to enable them to overcome their stereotypical perceptions of engineers. The activity introduced them to notable women in environmental engineering, and raised their awareness of these female engineers’ contributions to engineering and society. The results revealed that the activity was effective in countering high school teachers’ misconceptions of engineers. By providing detailed information about the personal lives and work experiences of the female engineers, the biographies might be useful in countering existing cultural stereotypes of female engineers and initiating changes in perceptions needed to narrow the gender gap in engineering. Teachers and professors can use the examples of these notable female engineers as role models to inspire their female students to become engineers.