Women Forging Ahead in Traditionally Male Dominated Engineering Technology Fields

These presentation slides, provided by the University of South Florida, discuss a research project on women in engineering technology (ET) fields. The following sections are included: Introduction, Background, Barriers to Women in ET, Research Questions, Sample, Methodology, Analysis, Themes, Conclusions, and more. Research questions for this presentation are: What are experiences of women enrolled in ET degree programs at community colleges, to what extent are their experiences similar and/or different, why they decided to enroll in community college, why they decided to pursue an ET degree, and what are their career ambitions. These presentation slides also include characteristics of female college students in ET programs and case studies of six different women.

The following are the conclusions of this presentation:

• Women in ET are meeting its challenges, but continue to face barriers: Family responsibilities, affordability, stereotype.
• Community colleges need to conduct outreach to women so as to increase their numbers in the ET program.
• Research needs to be conducted to examine barriers to women getting hired in ET.