Collection

2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Kyle Trenshaw; Emily Weber; Rachel Monfredo

[6-7]. Longitudinal studies have shown the resulting impact can causewomen to either transfer out of the major, or, even if they persist and complete, to lack theconfidence to pursue advancement and positions of leadership once they enter the workforce [6-7].Despite the increased efforts to attract women and students from historically marginalizedpopulations to STEM fields in college, curricular development of the skillsets that will help thesestudents succeed and the environment to encourage them through academic struggles are stilllacking. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) reported in 2018 that 32% of women leaveSTEM degree programs prior to graduation, only 13% of the workforce in engineering arewomen, and 30% of these women leave the