Why female engineering students leave the field
Female engineers are leaving an already male-dominated engineering field due to a culture that does not take them seriously, according to Professor Brian Rubineau of Desautels Faculty of Management, UU直播.
Congratulations to Professor Brian Rubineau on receiving a SSHRC Partnership grant
Congratulations to Professor Brian Rubineau (Co-investigator)聽 on receiving a SSHRC Partnership grant for, A multi-sector partnership to investigate and develop policy and practice models to dismantle rape culture in universities, which was ranked 3rd
Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?
Engineering is the most male-dominated field in STEM. It may perhaps be the most male-dominated profession in the U.S., with women making up only聽13% of the engineering workforce.
Misfit and Milestones: Structural Elaboration and Capability Reinforcement in the Evolution of Entrepreneurial Top Management Teams
Authors: Ferguson, A.J., Cohen, L.,听Burton, M.D.,听Beckman, C.M.
Are Women Exiting Engineering Because Men Have All the Fun?
Researchers Caroll Serron at the University of California at Irvine, Susan S. Silbey at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Erin Cech (who performed the research at Rice University but is now at the University of Michigan), and Brian Rubineau at UU直播 conducted the study to try to get a better idea of just why women who made it through years of STEM education start migrating out of tech. The effort, funded by the U.S.
Why do women leave engineering?
Women who go to college intending to become engineers stay in the profession less often than men. Why is this? While multiple reasons have been offered in the past, a new study co-authored by an MIT sociologist develops a novel explanation: The negative group dynamics women tend to experience during team-based work projects makes the profession less appealing.
Big picture is better: The social implications of construal level for advice taking
Authors:听Reyt, J.N,听Wiesenfeld, B.N.,听Trope, Y.聽
Engineering culture and the reproduction of sex segregation
Men and women tend to work in different jobs. This tendency, called occupational sex segregation, is a primary cause of the gender pay gap. A聽recent McKinsey study聽finds that reducing occupational sex segregation could contribute $2 Trillion to the U.S. economy.
Despite advances toward equality in other areas, occupational sex segregation has remained essentially unchanged over the last quarter century. What keeps some jobs dominated by men and others by women?
Tenure time
Tenure is granted to professors and librarians in recognition of excellent performance 鈥� and is the University鈥檚 strongest guarantee of academic freedom in research, teaching, and service. The year-long application process is a rigorous evaluation of performance.
At its May 16, 2016, meeting, UU直播鈥檚 Board of Governors granted tenure to the 50 people in the 2015-2016 tenure cohort.
Brian Rubineau Awarded SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant
The proposed knowledge synthesis project will describe novel and implementable evidence based opportunities (EBOs) for promoting the participation and retention of women in STEM careers over the school-to-work transition. The project will focus on integrating scholarship and evidence regarding informal social dynamics involving peers 鈥� peer influence, social capital, and social networks 鈥� to identify these novel EBOs.
Want to Improve Diversity? Look to Networks
Industry-leading tech companies recruit heavily from the most selective colleges and universities in the U.S., so is it any wonder that their employees lack diversity?
What you thought you knew about diversity is wrong
As one of only two recruitment agencies that are also Stonewall members, diversity is an issue very close to the heart of our organisation. There is a huge decline in the portrayal of these issues as merely 鈥榯ick boxes鈥� or HR matters alone, but it鈥檚 important that they must be championed from the top of an organisation all the way to the ground in order for them to thrive.
Why diversity never comes to some workplaces
Striving for greater diversity in the workplace 鈥� be it gender, race, age or experience levels among employees 鈥� is a long sought-after goal by business leaders looking for a competitive advantage.
Several studies show that companies with a diverse workforce are more likely to outperform others in the field. So, with so much on the line, why do so many firms still struggle with a lack of gender, race or age diversity within their ranks?
Leveraging Peer Relationships for Retaining Women Engineers
Moving the focus from the individual to the social group offers novel and promising tools to help ensure the success and retention of entry-level women engineers.聽In recent years, SWE has endorsed and partnered with several researchers who focus on women鈥檚 lack of advancement in the engineering profession.
Workforce diversity boosted by recommending a friend
Referring friends and associates for job vacancies can help to create a diverse workforce, a new study from the Desautels Faculty of Management at UU直播 finds.
Word-of-mouth recruitment, the most common way to fill jobs, has previously been thought to cause segregation at work: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.
