Some Here, More There: What Attracts Women to Engineering Majors? Dr. Elizabeth Litzler University of Washington Center for Workforce Development.

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Some Here, More There: What Attracts Women to Engineering Majors? Dr. Elizabeth Litzler University of Washington Center for Workforce Development

WEPAN Webinar Series Host: Diane Matt, Executive Director, WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network) Moderator: Jenna Carpenter, Ph.D., Associate Dean; College of Engineering & Science, Louisiana Tech University; Director of Professional Development, WEPAN BOD Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, Center for Workforce Development, University of Washington

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Some Here, More There: What Attracts Women to Engineering Majors? Dr. Elizabeth Litzler University of Washington Center for Workforce Development

Elizabeth Litzler Some Here, More There: What Attracts Women to Engineering Majors?

Agenda 10 Meso: Aggregate characteristics of majors with % of women higher or lower than engineering average (13 schools, 5 majors) Individual: Attracting students to majors with most or least proportion women (21 schools, 9 majors) Proportion Women in Engineering Majors Proportion Women in Engineering Background and Theory

Background  Women represent more than half of the students in post-secondary education today (NCES 2008) 11

Theoretical Perspectives Used Gender, Race/Ethnicity GPA, Engr. Course in HS Human Capital Family friendly, Positive view Engr., Engr. confidence Intend to graduate, Coursework prepare for job Status Beliefs Passive: stereotypes, community, help others Overt: singled out, sexual harassment Hostile Climate Size, Research level, ranking, female faculty Institution Char. 12

Predictions based on Theory Students in Male-dominated majors will have:  High self-confidence  High self-efficacy  More preparation, greater skill investment  Hostile, unwelcome culture  More discrimination Students in less Male- dominated majors will have:  Greater perceptions of work-family flexibility  Greater sense of community  Greater sense of support  Greater proportion female faculty 13 Some effects stronger for women than men

Data  Engineering Workforce Commission (EWC)  Fall 2007 undergraduate engineering enrollments by sex and major  351 engineering schools  Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE)  10,554 survey respondents across 21 schools, 2008  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded UW Center for Workforce Development 14

Engineering Schools

Correlations with proportion women Higher Proportion Women (School level)  Very High Research Activity  Private  Has Female Majors  Large City  US NEWS Top 50, Top 100  Higher # Female Faculty 16 % of Women in Engineering by # of Female Faculty

17 National Data Proportion Women in Major (x) by Size of Engineering College (y) Proportion Women in Major

Proportion Women in Engineering (Majors) Results Summary  Large variation within majors and across schools  Context of the major/school matters  Content, by itself, does not drive female interest 18

Relationship of Student Perceptions to Location in a Major 19  PACE survey data, matched with Carnegie  Highest and lowest quartile proportion women in major  21 schools, nine majors

Highest Quartile=1 and Lowest Quartile =0 (21 schools) 20 Odds Ratios Reported

Summary- Individual level  Fewer differences between women in high and low quartiles than men in high and low quartiles  For women, less variation is attributable to the variation between schools (30% vs. ~70%) 21 Unexpected - Males feel unfairly singled out in majors with higher proportion of women

Analysis at Level of the Major  PACE individual survey data is aggregated up to level of the major  5 majors across 13 schools=65 cases  Weighted Least Squares  Representation Ratio: Greater than 1=higher representation in that major than in engineering overall  Other non-PACE variables included (Salary, Major and school rank, Carnegie RUVH) 22

Summary: Major Level (65 cases) Representation Ratio  Positive View of Engineering (respected, contribute to society) (.53)  Professors Care about Student Learning (.60)  Students Help Others Succeed (.45)  Proportion Female in Major (5.25) Representation Ratio  Engineering Community (-.31)  Carnegie Very High Research (RUVH) schools (-.64) 23

Overall Findings I  Wide variation in women’s representation: Student experiences, environment matters  School level characteristics (unmeasured) matter quite a bit for men’s choice of major with high or low proportion of women.  Individual, interactional and environmental characteristics are more important for women’s choice of major than school level differences. 24

Overall Findings II  Schools with higher proportion of women  High and very high research activity, higher # female faculty, ranked in top 100  Prior engineering experience strong across all models 25

Recommendations  10,000 STEM teachers (high school)  Outreach - Keep doing it!  Environment of major matters-  Professor-student interaction  Sense of Community 26

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