Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Australian, September 22, 2011, Thursday

The Australian

September 22, 2011, Thursday

The Australian (full article)

To work out why Seron is working with colleagues Susan Silbey (MIT) Brian Rubineau (Cornell) and Erin Cech (Stanford) on a study of woman engineers’ employment outcomes, including a study of undergraduates at MIT, the University of Massachusetts plus the Olin College of Engineering (which aspires to gender parity) and women-only Smith College.

And their results don’t tick any of the boxes that supposedly explain why women engineers give it away.