Women in engineering
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[edit] Statistics - USA
The percentage of female graduate students in engineering in 2001 was 20%.[1] Doctoral degrees awarded to women in engineering increased from 11.6% to 17.6% of total degrees awarded between 1995 and 2004.[2] The workforce remains as the area of highest under representation for women; only 11% of the engineering workforce in 2003 were women.[3]
[edit] Women engineers
See the Category:Women engineers to see biographies of women engineers on wikipedia. Some of the external links below also contain biographies of women engineers. The Archive of Women in Science and Engineering is trying to record and catalog the work of women engineers.[4]
[edit] See also
- Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, where women were targeted by a mass murderer because they were female engineering students
- List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in engineering
- Women in Computing
- Women in science
- Women in the workforce
[edit] References
- ^ Data on Women in S&E p. 4, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
- ^ Table 2. Doctorates awarded to women, by field of study: 1995–2004 in S&E Doctorate Awards: 2004, National Science Foundation.
- ^ TABLE H-5. Employed scientists and engineers, by occupation, highest degree level, and sex: 2006 in Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering (January 2009), National Science Foundation.
- ^ Archives of Women in Science and Engineering : Mission StatementIowa State university.
