Toward an Understanding of How First-Year Women Experience Gender in Undergraduate Engineering Classrooms

• In Event: Critical Contexts for Reimagining Pedagogical Practices in Postsecondary Education

Abstract

Women engineering students exist in classroom spaces dominated by men. 32 women engineering students were interviewed three times over their first college year. Findings reveal that women engineering students experience masculine dominant behaviors in the classroom that influence their perception of the knowledge and confidence of men as greater than their own.

Authors

• Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh

• Sarah E Kurz, University of Pittsburgh