First Year to Future Career: Women's Engagement in Technical Participation Is Associated with Long-Term Retention.

ABSTRACT: Societies realize the value of increasing the number of engineering and other STEM graduates, yet universities often struggle to enroll and retain STEM students, particularly women. To remedy this, many engineering programs have shifted their pedagogical approaches to include project-based learning in group settings. However, prior research on engineering teams revealed, for example, gender gaps in active participation, reflecting stereotypes of men as engineering experts and women as supporters. In the current study, we examined the long-term correlates of such gaps. Specifically, in a mixed-method study (behavioral observation, surveys, and longitudinal follow-up) we found gender differences in active technical participation during students' first year in engineering project group presen

SUBMITTER: Lewis NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11851499 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature