At the Fortune Summit for Women 2013, Megan Smith, VP of Google[x] talked about the biases against women in business, particularly in the engineering field, in a video interview. It's worth the 3-minutes of your day to watch this video. Smith makes the case for why the gender gap persists and explains that a significant part of the problem is unconscious bias. This is … [Read more...]
Gender Wage Gap in Engineering Driven by Professional Culture
The gender wage gap in engineering is caused by cultural ideologies in the engineering profession according to research by Rice University Assistant Professor Erin Cech, Ph.D. The report was published by Oxford University Press in partnership with the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and first appeared in Social Forces, a leading … [Read more...]