The Society of Women Engineers has just released its 2004 literature review. (You'll need Adobe Reader to read it). It contains 130 resources from 2004 and early 2005, collected by the ADVANCE team at New Mexico State University (thanks, folks!). SWE has been publishing an annual review for the past four years, and "priority is given to research that has been subjected to peer review".
The 130 resources included in this year's review focus on "big stories" about women in engineering, diversity in the professoriate, motherhood and academia, the science and engineering workforce, research on K-12 preparation for engineering, programming for women and underrepresented minorities in universities, gender and technology, trends in educational equity of girls and women, and conferences. [from SWE press release]
I'll now shamelessly plug one of the resources in the bibliography, a special issue of the NWSA Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 2004, entitled "(Re)Gendering Science Fields". You should go find and read this special issue not just because all the articles in it are really fabulous and useful, but also because I happen to have a really fabulous article in it with my co-author, Cynthia Burack, a professor at Ohio State University. The article is entitled "Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity".
If you are an administrator or professsor in engineering, please go read this article. Especially if you are one of those ones who are always whining about why do "they" always have to have special programs and space and take up university resources. And if you haven't figured it out by now: it's not so much that women and minority men need special programs to succeed in engineering. It's that engineering needs special programs to attract and retrain underrepresented groups in its, shall we say, constrained cultural milieu.
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