Is Engineering Hostile to Women? An Analysis of Data from the 1993 National Survey of College Graduates

ALESSIO and Andrzejewski (2000, henceforward AA neither can be productively addressed through speculation. Here I present additional findings about women's exit rates from engineering compared with men's, and women engineers' exit rates from full-time employment compared with women in other professions. I also discuss the use of top-coded data from the National Science Foundation's National Survey of Natural and Social Scientists and Engineers, 1982-1989 SSE (U.S. Department of Commerce 1990) (SSE). I start by briefly reviewing my original study. SUMMARY OF ORIGINAL FINDINGS