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Review Of Related Literature

It is not a common phenomenon to see a minority of women taking up engineering

 programs. It is undoubtedly a fact that man dominates the entirety of this field of science. This

would be the core of our group’s discussion, to answer the question: “What are the differentfactorsreasons behind the minute population of women participating in engineering!related

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 programs and (d+ocates etwork, Inc., “Women ha+e made ma-or strides in other academic and professional areas, while their progress in a number of science and engineering fields remainsstubbornly low, W)/( members0 e*perience and their work in uni+ersity settings, reali1e that

the full participation of women in engineering mirrors the findings of the study.

2ude 3ar1olini, /resident of the 4ociety of Women )ngineers, says the findings also echo

her organi1ation0s work. 4W) has long been concerned with this issue, and for the past fi+e

years has released a comprehensi+e annual re+iew detailing the status

of women engineers in industry and academia. /erhaps these citations would lead to areali1ation that this issue is not a tri+ial issue. The need of women partaking in engineering

should be apprehended and must be taken action on how to rally this deranged problem.

The need of women partaking in engineering should be apprehended and must be taken

action on how to rally this deranged problem. %an years of institutional bias and ongoing subtle

discrimination against professional women in science and engineering be fi*ed in 56 minutes"We don’t think so. The time may sound short, but according to two!thirds of the program0s

 participants sur+eyed, those messages of encouragement and ad+ice translate to a substantial

 base of support at critical moments in their academic pursuits. The +oices of those working in thetrenches are often isolated and sometimes ignored, but women in the profession are hopeful that

the prestige of the ational (cademy of 4ciences will finally be the catalyst for real change on a

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