Why do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

By J. Hunt. Social Science Research Network, 2010

226 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The author uses the 2003 and 2010 National Survey of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. The author finds that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and that half the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. Family-related constraints and dissatisfaction with working conditions are found to be only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of other fields once women’s relatively high exit rates from male fields generally are taken into account.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8174c72ad32cd07ab682a016df2204c5a6287f94

Citations in the corpus

• EVOLUTION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN POST-SECONDARY HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: COLLEGE MAJORS (2014, unknown): “Another important area for future research is understanding the flows of men and women across occupations, in particular the higher exit of women than men from science and technical occupations (Hunt 2010).”