Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity

For more than three decades, the US federal government, industry and professional engineering societies has contributed millions of dollars to increase the number of women in US engineering programs with minimal impact. The research published on how to address the on-going United States (US) nationa...

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Main Authors: Abu Lail, Nehal I., Phang Abdullah, Fatin Aliah, Ater Kranov, Ashley Marie, Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah, Olsen, Robert G., Williams, Rochelle
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spelling my.utm.357452017-08-06T04:09:46Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35745/ Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity Abu Lail, Nehal I. Phang Abdullah, Fatin Aliah Ater Kranov, Ashley Marie Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah Olsen, Robert G. Williams, Rochelle L Education For more than three decades, the US federal government, industry and professional engineering societies has contributed millions of dollars to increase the number of women in US engineering programs with minimal impact. The research published on how to address the on-going United States (US) national challenge of increasing gender parity in undergraduate engineering programs is almost entirely US centric. The authors of this paper reached across borders and outside the STEM education literature to gain a different perspective on the US problem of persistent gender segregation in undergraduate engineering education. As we compared the issue of gender parity between the US, Jordan and Malaysia, three previously unexplored areas began to take shape: 1. The US has potentially inaccurately scoped the problem, 2. Different factors seem to contribute to greater gender equity in undergraduate engineering programs in Jordan and Malaysia than in the US, and 3. A sociological framework for analysis and interpretation (not previously published in the engineering education literature) helps us better understand the core causes of gender inequity in advanced industrialized countries, such as the US. Once we better understand the core causes, effective solutions can be designed. The purpose of this paper is to begin to re-scope the problem of increasing the number of women in engineering education in the US, identify potential factors that contribute to gender equity in Jordan and Malaysia, and to propose future areas of robust cross-national engineering education research. American Society for Engineering Education 2012 Book Section PeerReviewed Abu Lail, Nehal I. and Phang Abdullah, Fatin Aliah and Ater Kranov, Ashley Marie and Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah and Olsen, Robert G. and Williams, Rochelle (2012) Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. American Society for Engineering Education, Washington DC, pp. 1-34. ISBN 978-087823241-3 http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/8/papers/5444/download
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Abu Lail, Nehal I.
Phang Abdullah, Fatin Aliah
Ater Kranov, Ashley Marie
Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah
Olsen, Robert G.
Williams, Rochelle
Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity
description For more than three decades, the US federal government, industry and professional engineering societies has contributed millions of dollars to increase the number of women in US engineering programs with minimal impact. The research published on how to address the on-going United States (US) national challenge of increasing gender parity in undergraduate engineering programs is almost entirely US centric. The authors of this paper reached across borders and outside the STEM education literature to gain a different perspective on the US problem of persistent gender segregation in undergraduate engineering education. As we compared the issue of gender parity between the US, Jordan and Malaysia, three previously unexplored areas began to take shape: 1. The US has potentially inaccurately scoped the problem, 2. Different factors seem to contribute to greater gender equity in undergraduate engineering programs in Jordan and Malaysia than in the US, and 3. A sociological framework for analysis and interpretation (not previously published in the engineering education literature) helps us better understand the core causes of gender inequity in advanced industrialized countries, such as the US. Once we better understand the core causes, effective solutions can be designed. The purpose of this paper is to begin to re-scope the problem of increasing the number of women in engineering education in the US, identify potential factors that contribute to gender equity in Jordan and Malaysia, and to propose future areas of robust cross-national engineering education research.
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author Abu Lail, Nehal I.
Phang Abdullah, Fatin Aliah
Ater Kranov, Ashley Marie
Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah
Olsen, Robert G.
Williams, Rochelle
author_facet Abu Lail, Nehal I.
Phang Abdullah, Fatin Aliah
Ater Kranov, Ashley Marie
Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah
Olsen, Robert G.
Williams, Rochelle
author_sort Abu Lail, Nehal I.
title Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity
title_short Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity
title_full Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity
title_fullStr Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity
title_full_unstemmed Persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to Jordan and Malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity
title_sort persistent gender inequity in us undergraduate engineering: looking to jordan and malaysia for factors to their success in achieving gender parity
publisher American Society for Engineering Education
publishDate 2012
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35745/
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