What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on

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What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on

We have considerable understanding of the obstacles that women engineers encounter and the reasons that they leave the field, but we know less about what enables them to remain. Adopting an interpretivist approach, this article examines how a group of British women engineers in two FTSE 100 companie...

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Main Authors:	Fernando, D., Cohen, Laurie, Duberley, Joanne
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2018
Subjects:	help support retention women engineering career habitus
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49757/

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