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Presented at the October 22, 1981 meeting of the Great Lakes Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, held in conjunction with the centennial of naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of Michigan.
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Who are the women who became engineers in the 1970s and 1980s? How have they fared in the most male-dominated profession in America? This is the first book to answer these questions. It explores the backgrounds, family lives, work experiences, and attitudes of engineers in order to explain the unequal patterns of career development for women, who generally hold lower positions and receive fewer promotions than their male counterparts. McIlwee and Robinson synthesize two theoretical approaches frequently used to explain the status of women in the workforcegender role and structural theoriesproviding new insights into improving womens careers in traditionally male occupations.
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