First Year to Future Career: Women's Engagement in Technical Participation Is Associated with Long-Term Retention.

Neil A Lewis, Nicole Russell Pascual, Denise Sekaquaptewa, Lorelle A Meadows

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Neil A LewisDepartment of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7912-1689

Nicole Russell PascualDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7873-4184

Denise SekaquaptewaDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4354-8861

Lorelle A MeadowsDepartment of Psychology and Human Factors, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6987-7690

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Societies realize the value of increasing the number of engineering and other STEM graduates, yet universities often struggle to enroll and retain STEM students, particularly women. To remedy this, many engineering programs have shifted their pedagogical approaches to include project-based learning in group settings. However, prior research on engineering teams revealed, for example, gender gaps in active participation, reflecting stereotypes of men as engineering experts and women as supporters. In the current study, we examined the long-term correlates of such gaps. Specifically, in a mixed-method study (behavioral observation, surveys, and longitudinal follow-up) we found gender differences in active technical participation during students' first year in engineering project group presentations, such that men engaged in more active participation than women (

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PMID40001771

DOI10.3390/bs15020140

PMCPMC11851499

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