How Wise Are We? Should we encourage more women to become engineers?

Abstract

Since the 1970s there has been a variety of initiatives encouraging women to become engineers, and the proportion of women entering degree level courses in engineering is rising rapidly. In 1985 nearly 11% of engineering students on degree courses at universities were women. This trend parallels similar, although more dramatic, increases in the proportion of women engineers in the United States and France. However, these statistics must be set against the fact that women remain far more unusual as practising engineers; they represent 2.9% of technicians, 3.9% of professional engineers and approximately 1% of chartered engineers.

Citation

Newton, P. (1988), "How Wise Are We? Should we encourage more women to become engineers?", Women in Management Review, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 22-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005172