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Analyses of studies and surveys reveals prevalent patterns in the selection of engineering discipline intended to be pursued by Filipino students.Given that preference is subjective in nature, appropriate studies, tools, and methodologies were utilized in order to quantify the results.This paper also featured several factors supporting the results of preferences of the respondents.Specifically, preferences of male respondents are civil engineering (CE), mechanical engineering (ME), and electrical engineering (EE).These three disciplines significantly have male to female ratio both relative and absolute numbers.On the other hand, engineering disciplines like electronics engineering (ECE), and computer engineering (CPE) have nearly balanced male to female ratio although the number of males still dominates the number of females.Moreover, there are some areas where responses of females are greater than males and they prefer either chemical engineering (ChE) or industrial engineering (IE) but this is relative rather than absolute number.The instrument of evaluation was tailor fit in the manner that it would fulfill the Harmonized Gender and Development Agenda (HGDG).The HGDG has provisions of obtaining five percent (5%) of funds of each government office whether it belongs to Local Government Unit (LGU), National Government Agency (NGA), or State Universities and Colleges (SUCs).Furthermore, this paper revealed reasons why such results occur more than the conventional stereotypes that engineering profession is dominated by males.
Ravenal De Jesus (Fri,) studied this question.