TY - CHAP
T1 - Approaches for attracting, retaining, and progressing women in Australian undergraduate engineering
T2 - Curricular innovation focused on humanitarian and human-centered design concepts
AU - Goncher, Andrea M.
AU - Cameron, Shara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 selection and editorial matter, Hyun Kyoung Ro, Frank Fernandez, and Elizabeth J. Ramon; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Australia’s unique higher education landscape includes its international education sector as one of Australia’s top three exports (Department of Education and Training, 2018). However, women in Australia are under-represented in STEM, for they only make up 17% of university enrollments in engineering (Australian Academy of Science, 2019) and 12% of the engineering workforce (Kaspura, 2019). This chapter describes the context of Australian tertiary engineering education, provides an overview of some recent initiatives focused on women in engineering, and gives examples of ways programs and initiatives can be successfully implemented to increase the participation of women in engineering.
AB - Australia’s unique higher education landscape includes its international education sector as one of Australia’s top three exports (Department of Education and Training, 2018). However, women in Australia are under-represented in STEM, for they only make up 17% of university enrollments in engineering (Australian Academy of Science, 2019) and 12% of the engineering workforce (Kaspura, 2019). This chapter describes the context of Australian tertiary engineering education, provides an overview of some recent initiatives focused on women in engineering, and gives examples of ways programs and initiatives can be successfully implemented to increase the participation of women in engineering.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003053217
DO - 10.4324/9781003053217
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780367512934
SN - 9781032048031
SP - 174
EP - 186
BT - Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education
A2 - Ro, Hyun Kyoung
A2 - Fernandez, Frank
A2 - Ramon, Elizabeth J
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -