A Tangible Solution to Closing the Gender Gap in Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i1.4163Keywords:
Women in engineering, gender disparity, female engineersAbstract
Despite decades of effort to improve the gender disparity in engineering, women represent only 13% of engineers today, as stereotypes and unsupportive environments turn them away from the progressing field. By interweaving and building upon existing projects that have worked to close the gender gap in engineering, we plan to create a curriculum-based website to educate women and heighten their interest in engineering. Through games, career quizzes, research, communication forums, and professional accounts in this field, our project seeks to expand the number of female engineers in the workforce.
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