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Gender and Self-Selection Among Engineering Students

Gender and Self-Selection Among Engineering Students
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Author(s): Maci Cook (University of Arkansas, USA)and Justin Chimka (University of Arkansas, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 7
Source title: Gender and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6912-1.ch071

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Abstract

Gender and graduation rates of first time engineering college students have been analyzed as a function of academic and demographic variables in order to investigate the hypothesis that an advantage to women with respect to student success might be attributed to their socioeconomic advantages as a student population. The authors present descriptive, graphical, and model-based evidence to support their ideas about gender and self-selection driven by other demographic factors that leave a disproportionate number of women out of higher education, but create a group of female students more likely than their male counterparts to succeed.

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