Exploring the Odds: Gender Differences in Departing the Engineering Profession
Exploring the Odds: Gender Differences in Departing the Engineering Profession
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探索可能性：离开工程职业的性别差异
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Kristin N. Weber
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作者：
N. Fouad;Michael B. Kozlowski;Romila Singh;Nina G. Linneman;Samantha Schams;Kristin N. Weber
妇女的离开或不进入科学，技术，工程和数学专业，特别是工程，一直是一个活跃的来源，学术调查在过去的三十年。这一领域的许多文献都只涉及女性参与者的样本，这就引出了一个问题，即男性和女性是否出于相同或相似的原因选择离开这一职业或不进入这一职业。本研究收集了一个大样本的男性（n = 1，273）谁离开或从未进入工程专业，并比较他们的反应大样本的女性（n = 1，235）的一组分类响应变量。从工作调整理论的角度来看，我们的研究结果表明，有性别差异的原因离开，提高了可能性，工程气候差异加强对男性和女性的需求。本研究的意义进行了讨论。
Women’s departure or nonentrance into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions, particularly engineering, has been a lively source of scholarly inquiry for the past three decades. Much of the literature in this area has been with solely female samples of participants, begging the question as to whether or not men and women either choose to leave the profession or not enter for the same or similar reasons. This present study collected a large sample of men (n = 1,273) who had either left or never entered the engineering profession and compared their responses to a large sample of women (n = 1,235) on a set of categorical response variables. Using the perspective of the Theory of Work Adjustment, our results suggest that there are gender differences in reasons for departure, raising the possibility that engineering climates differentially reinforce needs for men and women. Implications of this research are discussed.