The Effects of Men Peer Behavior on Women’s Learning in Engineering Classrooms

• In Event: Oppression and Agency: Marginalized Students Navigating Higher Education

Abstract

Women’s participation in STEM fields continues to be problematic due to STEM disciplinary culture that creates hostile environments for underrepresented students. This study illuminates men's behaviors toward women in engineering classrooms and the negative effects on women including lower self-efficacy and self-concept than their men peers thus inhibiting learning.

Author

• Selyna Perez Beverly, Eastern Michigan University