Conference Session

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Perspectives on Advancing Women and Gender Equity in Engineering - for the Next 130 Years

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Baishakhi Bose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Haleh Barmaki Brotherton, Clemson University; Theo Hopper, University of Michigan; Pamela Martínez Oquendo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lily M. Wang P.E., University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Margaret E.B. Webb, Virginia Tech; Hannah Wilkinson, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

systematically. A big focus of my thinking lately is on what the “broader impacts” I wantmy research to have one day. I know it is a typical-NSF buzzword, but I do want my work to havethe long-term and compounding effects that make large-scale change.R4: I am reaching my goals for gender equity by encouraging male faculty members to viewwomxn’s struggles in STEM from a different perspective. I am supporting womxn and individualswith other gender identities to identify faculty mentors that can serve as role models in STEM,since mentoring is key for retaining students in STEM [21]. I would prioritize the examination ofmentorship in prospective faculty teaching statements to identify individuals who will support allstudents pursuing a degree in