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Examination of Gender-Related Attitudes of Engineering Professors as a Correlate for Career Barrier of Female Engineering Students  

Kim, Ji-Hyeon (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Kyungwon University)
Jeong, Yoon-Kyung (Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Korea)
Oh, Myong-Sook (Department of Chemical Engineering, Hongik University)
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Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.14, no.1, 2011 , pp. 46-54 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present study was carried out to investigate gender-related attitudes of professors in engineering as a socio-environmental factor for career barriers of female engineering students. For this purpose, 220 professors, 169 in engineering and 51 in non-engineering, completed questionnaires that evaluated gender-related knowledge, behavior, and career expectations. Our results showed that both engineering and non-engineering professors showed a low level of knowledge of gender differences. Both groups selected soft skills such as leadership, initiative and self efficacy as lacking in female students, rather than their academic skills. Professors in engineering showed higher expectations of female students pursuing a career in engineering but lower expectations for working on core projects and taking leadership at the workplace than the professors in non-engineering. The level of gender-sensitivity related to teaching was lower for professors in engineering than those in non-engineering, although professors in engineering evaluated their gender sensitivity higher than the evaluation of their female students. In addition, professors in engineering opted less for developing programs for female student career development in engineering than professors in non-engineering, and they showed a low interest level in participating in such programs. This study showed that the efforts to make engineering professors aware of the characteristics of female students should precede the development of education programs.
Keywords
Female engineering students; Career barrier; Professors in engineering; Gender-related attitude;
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