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Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women

  • Written by Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, Associate Director of the Center for Women in Technology and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Computing Education Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to womenResearch shows women who study engineering do better when mentored by other women.Nitat Termmee/Moment via Getty ImagesOnly about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to womenCC BY-ND

Despite various efforts to encourage more women to study STEM fields in college, the percentage of engineering bachelor’s degrees earned by women in the United States hasn’t increased much in the 21st century....

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