Women in Professional Engineering
The Interaction of Gendered Structures and Values
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Carter (0000-0002-0394-6307, Women Into Science and Engineering Group at The Open University), Gill Kirkup (Women Into Science and Engineering Group at The Open University) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 92-101 |
| Publication date | 1990-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1395403 |
| OpenAlex | W4248518880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 4 |
For more than a decade we have been engaged, as educationalists, in trying to improve the opportunities for women in engineering, technology and related, nontraditional fields. We reached a point where we felt we could not continue without knowing more about what it is like to be a woman working as a professional engineer. Excellent research had been done on the working lives of blue-collar women (Cockburn, 1985; Coyle, 1984; Walshok, 1981) and on the lives of women in other professions (Kanter, 1977; Marshall, 1984), but there was nothing specifically on professional engineers. Within that profession, particular questions needed to be addressed. How is gender manifest in the engineering profession, how is that gendering perpetuated, and, most importantly, how does this affect the life experience of women engineers both inside and outside their work? In 1986 we carried out a small research project based on interviewing thirty-seven women engineers in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, to find out why they had chosen engineering as a profession and what, for them, were the rewards and penalties. Engineering is still a predominantly white profession but our sample did include some women of colour
Feminism · Human sexuality · Interview · Nothing · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · White (mutation) · Work (physics) · Anthropology · Career Development and Diversity · Cultural Studies · Engineering · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development · Engineering Education and Pedagogy · Gender Studies
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2020 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |