The benefits of mentoring for engineering students
Autor/in:
Wallace, Jean E.; Haines, Valerie A.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 4, S. 377-391
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Inhalt: "The authors examined the benefits of mentoring for female and male engineering students and whether the benefits of mentoring differ depending on the sex of the mentor. Kram's framework of career development, psychosocial, and role-modeling functions was used to examine the benefits of mentoring for 1,069 engineering students. It was found that students with mentors were more socially integrated into their academic programs than students without mentors and that male mentors were more effective in this function than female mentors. Few students reported psychosocial benefits from being mentored, although female proteges reported more if they had female mentors. An unexpected finding for the role-modeling benefits was that mentored students reported less commitment to engineering careers than students without mentors. The authors close with a discussion of the implications of these findings and suggestions for future research in this area." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Mentoring; Student; Karriere; Geschlechterverhältnis; Studentin; Ingenieurwissenschaft; Quantität
CEWS Kategorie:Mentoring und Training, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Sociological factors influencing the organizational justice perceptions of women in information technology
Autor/in:
Parzinger, Monica J.; Lemons, Mary A.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 7 (2001) No. 1, S. 133-144
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Inhalt: "There is a tremendous shortage of information technology (IT) talent in the United States today. Reports suggest that the demand for such talent will continue to increase. Despite the need for qualified personnel, women are underrepresented in this field. Those entering the profession often leave. This article discusses possible sociological factors influencing the number of women entering a career in information technology and their advancements to management positions. The relationship of these variables with perceptions of organizational justice in career advancement is considered. Members of Systers, an on-line forum for women in technology, were surveyed and the results are presented." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Chancengleichheit; USA; Nachwuchsförderung; Informationstechnik; Karriere; soziokulturelle Faktoren; Nordamerika; Quantität
CEWS Kategorie:Arbeitswelt und Arbeitsmarkt, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Gender, families, and science : influences on early science training and career choices
Autor/in:
Hanson, Sandra L.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 6 (2000) No. 2, S. 169-187
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Inhalt: "This research examines the effects of gender and a number of family experiences on young people's chances of going into postsecondary science training and science occupations in the years immediately following high school. Data came from the nationally representative, longitudinal High School and Beyond survey. Results show that gender plays a significant role in choices involving early science training and occupations-especially training. Amongst young men and women with comparable resources and qualifications, young women are less likely to make the science choice. The family experiences and expectations examined here are not a major factor in understanding gender differences in access to science training and occupations. Although much of the literature describes the domains of science and of family as being at odds, results from this research suggest that family experiences play a rather minimal role in predicting who will enter science training or occupations in the early post-high school years. When family variables do have an effect, they are not always negative and the nature of the effect varies by the time in the life cycle that the family variable is measured, by type of family experience (orientation vs. procreation), by outcome (science major vs. science occupation), and by gender." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Sozialisation; Planung; Karriere; Nachwuchsförderung; Quantität; Karriereplanung
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Fördermaßnahmen
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Why sience? : women scientists and their pathways along the road less traveled
Autor/in:
Davis, Kathleen S.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 5 (1999) No. 2, S. 129-153
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Inhalt: "The article examines why some women choose and continue to pursue careers in science, and which structures and mechanisms within the scientific community provide them with ways to construct identities as legitimate and mature practitioners, and which do not." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Naturwissenschaft; Karriere; Identität; berufliches Selbstverständnis; Berufsverlauf; Quantität; USA; Nordamerika; Identität, berufliche
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz