Studies exploring what it means to be an engineer professionally have been conducted for
decades, but have boomed in recent years. This systematic literature review aims to …

Empirical research on practicing engineers can inform engineering education as it provides
evidence for what engineering students ought to learn. Whilst there has been a growing …

Gender scholars use the metaphor of the “glass escalator” to describe a tendency for men in
women-dominated workplaces to be promoted into supervisory positions. More recently …

Do men and women in the same field develop different professional identities? This paper
theoretically articulates and empirically explores a mechanism of such gendering: Self …

While the importance of school-to-work transitions is increasingly recognised, little research
has examined the roles that gender plays in those transitions. This is a problem because of …

This study investigates what attracts career‐oriented women to foreign subsidiaries and how
they experience this work context. Based on 125 interviews with career‐oriented women in …

In this article we use the term 'sexualised visibility'to describe how in male dominated work
settings such as engineering, women are inscribed with sexual attributes that overshadow …

The construction industry's long-term health depends upon continued efforts to understand
historically excluded students' attrition from engineering programs. For women, lack of …

Engineering is both a social and technical discipline, and engineering students encounter
the social aspects of engineering work in a variety of education and internship contexts …

This chapter reports on a study of the experiences of engineers beginning new jobs in a
business organization. The overriding question guiding the study was: What and how do …