TY - GEN
T1 - Women's Leadership in Engineering, Workplace Patriarchy and Bais
AU - Mbola, Vatiswa Tanya
AU - Nwobodo-Anyadiegwu, Eveth Nkeiruka
AU - Gqibani, Samuel
AU - Anghel, Cristina
AU - Manti, Silase
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This paper aims to review existing research on the factors highlighting the obstacles to participation that contribute to the underrepresentation of women in engineering. Additionally, it recommends promoting and improving gender balance in the field. Women's involvement in the workforce has generated much debate worldwide. Data from several journal articles in various countries was combined to improve the knowledge of the barriers influencing women's career involvement in engineering and strategies for promoting women's career participation. This work highlights the key findings about the biases and patriarchal practices that lead to the underrepresentation of women in the minority in the engineering field and how the improvement of gender imbalance has been addressed in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, India, Bahrain, and Africa.
AB - This paper aims to review existing research on the factors highlighting the obstacles to participation that contribute to the underrepresentation of women in engineering. Additionally, it recommends promoting and improving gender balance in the field. Women's involvement in the workforce has generated much debate worldwide. Data from several journal articles in various countries was combined to improve the knowledge of the barriers influencing women's career involvement in engineering and strategies for promoting women's career participation. This work highlights the key findings about the biases and patriarchal practices that lead to the underrepresentation of women in the minority in the engineering field and how the improvement of gender imbalance has been addressed in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, India, Bahrain, and Africa.
KW - advancement
KW - diversity
KW - gender bias
KW - Gender in engineering
KW - inclusion
KW - inclusivity
KW - leadership
KW - women in engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105001796039&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICEED62316.2024.10923815
DO - 10.1109/ICEED62316.2024.10923815
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105001796039
T3 - 2024 IEEE 13th International Conference on Engineering Education: Dissemination and Advancement of Engineering Education using Artificial Intelligence, ICEED 2024
BT - 2024 IEEE 13th International Conference on Engineering Education
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEED 2024
Y2 - 19 November 2024 through 20 November 2024
ER -