Perez, J. O. (2019, June), Understanding the Intersection of First-Generation Degree Seeking Women, Engineering, and Public Universities   Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33482

\bibitem{asee_peer_33482}
  Perez, J. O. (2019, June), \emph{Understanding the Intersection of First-Generation Degree Seeking Women, Engineering, and Public Universities }
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--33482

Jessica Ohanian Perez.  "Understanding the Intersection of First-Generation Degree Seeking Women, Engineering, and Public Universities ".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/33482 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_33482}
  Jessica Ohanian Perez.
  "Understanding the Intersection of First-Generation Degree Seeking Women, Engineering, and Public Universities ".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/33482 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

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AB  - The 23 campuses of the California State University system (CSU) form the largest university system in the United States, educating over 460,000 students each year. The graduation Initiative of 2015 set a goal of raising the six year graduation rate to 54% for all students. While the CSU met its overall goal of graduation, it exacerbated the gap in achievement for under-represented groups. In 2018, approximately one-third of the students enrolled in the CSU are first generation degree seeking. The gap in academic achievement for this group is 13% compared to their counterparts. This lack of achievement is compounded when considering women in engineering fields, who earned only 16.8% of engineering degrees system-wide in 2016. The purpose of this study is to examine the intersection of first generation degree seeking status, gender, the public university and the discipline of engineering. The study was comprised ten first generation degree seeking women from a larger set of twenty-two women who have or will obtain their undergraduate degree in engineering from a CSU and employed a qualitative methodology. The data collected helped to answer the question: How does the intersection of gender and first generation college status impact a woman’s experience in undergraduate engineering programs at public universities? 
The data was analyzed through a lens of Feminist Poststructuralism and Dual Identity to allow the following themes to emerge: Isolation and independence, Finding value in public agency, and Projective comparative norming. The first generation degree seeking women engineers experience isolation within the field and home life during their undergraduate degree, which gives them a heightened sense of independence; seek out careers in public agency to serve their communities and preserve work-life balance; and project social capital onto their peers and use that as a basis for comparison. 

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