Development of a Persistence Survey for Faculty in Engineering Framed in Intersectionality of Gender, Race, and Class

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Abstract

Women, people of color, and people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds are underrepresented as faculty in departments of engineering (Martinez, O'Brien, & Hebl, 2017; Wise & Simmons, 2017). Methodologically, one of the challenges of studying this inequality has been the compartmentalization of faculty identities—that is, inequality is typically studied along a single axis of gender, race, or class. In this paper, authors address this gap in the literature by showing the process of validating a survey that measures persistence of faculty in engineering departments.

Authors

• Julie Aldridge

• Meseret Hailu, The Ohio State University

• So Yoon (Yoona) Yoon, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Monica F. Cox, The Ohio State University - Columbus