Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Sahar Razavi, Northern Arizona University; Nihal Sarikaya, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

in engineering, where onlyone in seven engineers is a woman. Though “women earn about half the doctorates in scienceand engineering in the United States [they] comprise only 21% of full science professors and 5%of full engineering professors” [14]. A comprehensive study of multiple processes playing a rolein these disparities showed that there was a cumulative effect of advantages for men anddisadvantages for women that built over time to produce highly gendered outcomes by the timethey reached the advanced stages of the education pipeline [15].Thus, the solution to the gendergap in STEM must reach deeper than retention efforts aiming at the college population.Also, a significant gap exists in pay among men and women, even when controlling