Dear ALL:
I was touched by Barbara Bitter's closing argument in the last online
discussion. I have just finished a two year study of women and men in
engineering to indeed determine if the gap has closed. I am running the
final
statistics and will have an executive summary available by the end of June
for anyone interested -- I sampled 700+ men and women across 4 major
research
universities and have compared the differences -- I found that although the
gap is closing, a closer scrutiny indicates that we must not get fooled
into
thinking it is closed -- I measured 13 variables with a 75-item
questionnaire
using detailed statistical analysis and concomitantly did a two year
ethnographic study -- sat in undergrad and grad engineering classes (I was
an
engineer), interviewed men and women faculty, spoke in detail to university
academic counselors, held men's and women's focus groups, spoke to SWE
assemblies at 5 campuses, IEEE groups -- and examined the major existing
research -- the point -- if anyone wants a summary report (end if June)
give
me an email as I will not post it on our site -- if anyone wants a data set
copy (SPSS), write a request for that and I will need a signed release --
best
Christina M. Vogt
Executive Director
GenderWatchers
http://www.genderwatchers.org
genderwatchers@cs.com
Sponsored by International Gender Organization
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