THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

Abstract of "Science and Engineering Programs: On Target for Women?"

Author(s): The National Research Council (NRC)

This compilation of articles updates topics addressed in Women in Science and Engineering: Increasing Their Numbers in the 1990s (1991). Each article has its own abstract, written and summarized by MIT students. Each chapter cites research and suggestions to correct historical trends of low female participation in science and engineering often provides graphs and tables of information on the particular chapter's area of focus.

Edited by-Marsha Lakes Matyas and Linda Skidmore Dix

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Articles

• Chapter 1. The Benefits of Diversity in the Science and Engineering Workforce, by Linda S. Wilson
• Chapter 2. Interventions Defined, Implemented, and Evaluated, by Elizabeth Stage
• Chapter 3. Overview: The Status of Women in Science and Engineering, by Marsha Lakes Matyas
• Chapter 4. Promoting Undergraduate Studies in Science and Engineering, by Marsha Lakes Matyas
• Chapter 5. Promoting Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in Science and Engineering, by Joan Sherry and Linda Skidmore Dix
• Chapter 6. Promoting Science and Engineering Careers in Academe, by Garrison Sposito
• Chapter 7. Promoting Science and Engineering Careers in Industry, by Esther M. Conwell
• Chapter 8. Promoting Science and Engineering Careers in the Federal Government, by Linda Skidmore Dix
• Summary Summary: Cross-Cutting Issues, by Mildred S. Dresselhaus and Linda Skidmore Dix

• Return to Abstracts of Studies about Diversity in Engineering and Science

• Abstract of "Chapter 9-Summary: Cross Cutting Issues"

• Abstract of "Male S & E Students May Hold Stereotypes of Women Contradicted by their Own Experience"

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