Engineering Education: How to Design a Gender-Inclusive Curriculum

This 7-page paper, written by Jean Armstrong and Gilah Leder, describes how engineering courses should be changed so they are more appealing to female students. There were major increases in female enrollment in engineering in the eighties but they have hit a plateau, and in some cases declined in the nineties. This paper suggests ways to improve courses, including pruning the content to avoid overload and treating the topics in a "total context which includes social, environmental, and political considerations as well as technical aspects."