Engineering Gender Balance

A short talk to encourage, even inspire colleagues to make a bold commitment to achieve gender balance in our engineering school. Presented 16 Sep. 2016 at our faculty retreat.

Transcript

1. GENDER BALANCE
   ENGINEERING
   

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4. LOW PARTICIPATION FIELD FOR WOMEN: ENGINEERING, 1993, 2002, 2012
   NSF
   

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5. LOW PARTICIPATION FIELD FOR WOMEN: MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS, 1993, 2002, 2012
   NSF
   

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6. HIGH PARTICIPATION FIELDS FOR WOMEN: BIOSCIENCES & SOCIAL SCIENCES,1993–2012
   NSF
   

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7. IN THE US, 20% OF
   ENGINEERING STUDENTS ARE
   NOW WOMEN
   Joanne McGrath Cohoon, UVA
   ASME.ORG
   

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8. 60-40%
   GW SEAS CLASS 2020
   

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9. AT GW SEAS, IT’S NOT US …
   COUNT OF STUDENTS ENROLLED: MAE VS, BME
   0
   0.15
   0.3
   0.45
   0.6
   2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
   

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10. LET’S MAKE A
    BOLD
    COMMITMENT
    That our goal is 50-50% and
    we’ll do what we can to
    achieve it.
    

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14. “Women who left
    reported feeling
    belittled or
    undermined by their
    supervisors and co-
    workers, and they
    struggled to advance
    in a workplace.”
    

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15. NADYA FOUAD, CO-AUTHOR OF THE STUDY
    WHAT SHOULD EMPLOYERS DO?
    ▸ Create a culture with no tolerance for incivility
    ▸ Model changes from the top down
    ▸ Make system-wide changes, reinforced by accountability
    ▸ Make sure that work expectations are very clear.
    

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16. CONFERENCES
    MALE-DOMINATED
    

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21. ON MY SYLLABUS
    

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22. DO?
    WHAT ELSE CAN WE
    

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