Female engineering students: should there be more? Part II

Here's another view. From Julie Coates, my amazing co-author. 

Coates' view has two basic points:
1. A major problem is that women do not WANT to become practicing engineers.
2. The brain is flexible, and by intervention, young women can overcome any learning abilities (such as spatial skills). 

WANT.
There's plenty of evidence women do not want to become practicing engineers, even though they graduate in engineering with no problem.  Coates says that in developing or communist countries, women have been 50% of engineers (e.g. Bulgaria).  But when East Germany (28% of engineers female) united with West Germany (8% engineers female) the percentage of eastern German female engineers fell dramatically (freedom, etc.)  Susan Pinker agrees. She says that in better-off economies more women do not want to go into engineering.  There's no society, she says, where 50% of engineers are women. 

NEED.
Coates points to studies where women's spatial skills have been improved by intervention (teaching methods).  She says a critical factor is probably math in middle school, where middle school math teachers are woefully inadequate, especially in terms of teaching math to girls. 

Your turn: Can intervention (different teaching) help? 

Comments

[ralfsmohyhoca]

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[acitleblelt]

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