Women in Engineering

Women's careers are difficult to get. Workers preferably like men more than woman, so men are for sure to get what they want but not so much for women. Society thinks that men are better than women. The likelihood of women getting a job is very not so high, because

It's is written in history that the field of Math and Science seems to be a more male dominant field. The evidence shows that years ago women were discouraged from pursuing the field. We learned about the Darwin theory which is based on the fact that men were inferior to women. A theory that to a point made society actually believes that because men's brains were bigger they were smarter than females. This matter on top of a society that already didn't treat male and female equal created more challenges for women to succeed. Another main reason was that education for women wasn't as accessible as it was to men. Women didn't have the resources and at times weren't allowed to attend the schools available to men.

There is inequality between men and and women in things like STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Over the years inequality has gotten better in education but it still occurs in this program. According to an article in Maclean’s magazine, in Canada there are fewer women earning PhD’s in Science than the UK and United States of America. Young women need to be encouraged to strive for positions in the workforce that only young men typically strive for. The science and engineering classes can be intimidating, so more should be done to influence

Although the recent upward trends in the number of women in STEM fields are promising, they are not truly due to decreasing cultural stereotypes. Women receiving graduate degrees in engineering increased by 2 percent from 2000 to 2008, but this trend is not as hopeful as it may seem (Giges). This increase was mainly evident in communal fields like environmental or biomedical engineering (Giges). This is further evidence of the impact of cultural stereotypes and their influence on women’s career paths. Society’s expectation of women is that they serve as caring motherly figures and community-centered careers adhere

The increased need for more workers has led to less sexist decisions and more decisions being base off of qualifications. “As a result... women's share is supposed to increase from 46.4 to 46.8 percent,” Source A (Zupek). This source state that the amount of men and women in the workplace may soon be equal. A contrary justification would be that certain genders have specific qualities and their careers should pertain to that. Well, this argument can be easily disproved. Anyone can have any characteristic. Even men can have feminine

In early American history, society believed that women did not have a place in education and high-level learning. They were told not to bother their brains with such advanced thinking. Middle and upper class women learned to read and write, but their education ended there. A woman’s place was said to be in the home, cooking, sewing, and taking care of the children. In the case of upper class women, their “to-do” list was cut even shorter with the servants present to do the work.

I’ve always believed that women should have the same opportunities as men and can be just as successful leaders in society. I briefly looked into the military, took the ASVAB entrance exam and considered becoming a deployed doctor; however, I realized my passion lies within something else. Engineering and science, two programs that mostly consist of men, has become what I strive for. Within the past couple weeks I was able to shadow and work in the lab with several Sanford Hospital researchers and I found that although women are less represented in the science/engineering field, we can still achieve the same potential that any man

Second, I would like to talk about the gender roles that play while both men and women are working for the same job or trying to get a job with the same field. When it comes to hiring people mostly go for men because they assume that men will get the job done better than a women would. “Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t” (Anna – Marie Slaughter). With that being said it makes the competition for a job more challenging for women. They have to not only reach all the qualifications that is needed for the job but to go above and try to beat what the men is going to

It says in “STEM gender stereotypes common across the world” by Allie Bidwell “People associate science fields with men more than women,” and “these stereotypes are important because they can contribute to outcomes such as biased hiring decisions.” What this means is that people look at men more in the science field. when they need answers typically they look towards the men for solutions. also that when they are looking to hire people they base their decision on the fact that they are women. Also in the poem “women” by Nikki Giovanni, it says “She decided to become a woman and though he still refused to be a man she decided it was alright,” and “She wanted to be a robin singing through the leaves but still he refused to be her tree.”

There are many issues going on in the public sphere, but the one I want to address would be if women are equally qualified as men for higher paying professional jobs. One text that helps support this issue is a video I found on TED Talk given by Debbie Sterling. In the video, Debbie asked the audience a series of questions about engineers, and then she goes on and explains how difficult it is for women to become engineers because they are set to a social bias. Debbie Sterling discussed that most girls initially view themselves as being a princess and more suited for traditional female roles in the workforce. This behavior and attitude begins at a very early stage and can be associated with how they played as a child and adapted to the social norm. I picked this specific text because I

Since the beginning, men have ruled the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Which explains the huge gender gap in STEM jobs. As of 2009, women occupied 24% of STEM jobs. Many of these women work in the science field. Only about 12% of women occupy the engineering and computer science field.

In America gender is seen as a dichotomy, either male or female. Society has gendered everything from colors, to adjectives (strong for males, weak for females), to even occupations. Historically, science, technology, engineering, and math, also known as STEM, have had a masculine connotation connected to it. Which helps explain why elite white men have predominately occupied the STEM fields (Borum and Walker 2012). Eventually, women started to integrate into STEM, but not nearly in the quantities as men, this created the gender gap. The gender gap does vary based on which field you look at, and at more advanced levels in STEM, as well as race (O’Brien 2015). Not only is there a gender and race gap between men and women, but these ring true

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Gender has had a repeating effect on the choice of careers for people all throughout the United States. In history, it is taught that males dominated women in many careers, while women dominated males in only a few other minor positions. Males had an upper hand over women in engineering and in the military. One of the reasons males dominated was the idea of dominance over women has been passed down for centuries. It was never common for a women to be an engineer of a home or anything that wasn’t meant for women. Women only dominated in certain areas in the medical field because they were subjected to few positions. In the military, women were put down due their physical ability and laws set blocked many careers and positions in the military. Throughout history women have fought many laws to break gender inequality. And even up to now there are still some laws that prohibit women from doing specific jobs in their desired field.

There are many stereotypes that target women. People try to convince me that because I’m a girl, I need to act a certain way. I have been told that engineering is a man’s job, and I should pick something more suited for a woman. I have also heard that I’d never make it as an engineer because the coursework is too difficult for a woman to handle. I have heard numerous other gender stereotypes as well, but I want to spend every day challenging these stereotypes and proving that engineering isn’t just a man’s career.