What managers can do to keep women in engineering
Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. Much has been written about why women in the field leave, but researchers wanted to better understand what...
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| author | Fernando, Dulini Cohen, Laurie Duberley, Joanne |
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| description | Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. Much has been written about why women in the field leave, but researchers wanted to better understand what encourages women to stay. In-depth, one-on-one interviews with 34 women engineers in two UK firms found that certain forms of support, such as stretch assignments, personalized feedback, and an inclusive environment, made it easier for these women to succeed in the field. |
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| spelling | nottingham-525022020-05-04T19:40:31Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52502/ What managers can do to keep women in engineering Fernando, Dulini Cohen, Laurie Duberley, Joanne Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. Much has been written about why women in the field leave, but researchers wanted to better understand what encourages women to stay. In-depth, one-on-one interviews with 34 women engineers in two UK firms found that certain forms of support, such as stretch assignments, personalized feedback, and an inclusive environment, made it easier for these women to succeed in the field. Harvard Business Review 2018-06-12 Article NonPeerReviewed Fernando, Dulini, Cohen, Laurie and Duberley, Joanne (2018) What managers can do to keep women in engineering. Harvard Business Review . ISSN 0017-8012 https://hbr.org/2018/06/what-managers-can-do-to-keep-women-in-engineering |
| spellingShingle | Fernando, Dulini Cohen, Laurie Duberley, Joanne What managers can do to keep women in engineering |
| title | What managers can do to keep women in engineering |
| title_full | What managers can do to keep women in engineering |
| title_fullStr | What managers can do to keep women in engineering |
| title_full_unstemmed | What managers can do to keep women in engineering |
| title_short | What managers can do to keep women in engineering |
| title_sort | what managers can do to keep women in engineering |
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