16 The Six Stages of Bringing Up Women in Engineering

Kathy Nelson

West Monroe, Minnesota, United States of America

DOI: 10.1201/9781003336495-19

Contents

  1. 16.1 Growing Up
  2. 16.2 Show Up
  3. 16.3 Sign Up
  4. 16.4 Speak Up
  5. 16.5 Listen Up
  6. 16.6 Give a Hand Up
  7. 16.7 Sunset
  8. About the Author
  9. Notes

Engineering, in general, is very male-dominated: this is obviously an understatement.

The first woman to be employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, Edith Clarke received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919.1 Although Elizabeth Bragg was the first woman to receive a bachelor’s degree in engineering (1876), she never worked as a professional engineer, but was a stay-at-home wife ...

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