Women Engineers : Conditions at University and in the Profession in West Germany
Doris Janshen
(Sociologist, assistant professor, with a long standing research interest in women and technology and since a couple of years working at the Institute for Social Studies in Education and Training, Technische Universitat Berlin)
Hedwig Rudolph
(Economist, professor, with a long standing research interest in women and technology and since a couple of years working at the Institute for Social Studies in Education and Training, Technische Universitat Berlin)
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Abstract
This research attempted to provide a scholarly answer to why so few West German women choose engineering as a profession. The study was qualitative: 100 biographically structured interviews. A complex picture emerged. Recommendations are then made as to how women's integration into the profession might be eased without the price of over‐adaptation to male patterns of behaviour.
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Citation
Rudolph, H., Janshen, D., Janshen, D. and Rudolph, H. (1987), "Women Engineers : Conditions at University and in the Profession in West Germany", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 25-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010475
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1987, MCB UP Limited