Institutional Factors Related to the Shortage of Doctoral Women in U.S. Graduate Engineering Programs
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The shortage of U.S. female engineering doctoral students' parallels rising concerns about the ability of the United States to compete in the global economy. My main research objective is, therefore, to identify university level factors that are associated with the lower enrollment and graduation rates of U.S. females in doctoral engineering programs. This study aims to understand and identify gaps in the knowledge base directly related to the chilly climate, which is an environment where women can face subtle forms of discrimination. In this study, I focused on the chilly climate that U.S. female Ph.D. students can encounter in engineering programs at American research universities. Drawing from multivariate regression models, my findings indicate that the enrollment and the graduation rates of U.S. female engineering doctoral students are higher in universities with a greater degree of economically supported students, female faculty, female teaching assistants and research assistants, and a lower student to faculty ratio. Using the status of women in organizational theory, I interpret these findings to show that a supportive environment is essential to the proportion of women that enroll and graduate from doctoral engineering programs.
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| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | July 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Zikry, Fareeda M. |
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Subjects
| Subject | female engineers |
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| Subject | engineering doctoral programs |
| Subject | chilly climate |
| Subject | gender disparity |
| Subject | women in STEM |
| Subject | Stanford Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education |
| Genre | Thesis |
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