Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in attracting and retaining women in engineering.

This book analyses the outcomes of a decade-long investigation into this phenomenon, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change? The study includes data from two major surveys, accounts from female engineers in a range of locations and engineering fields, and case studies of three large engineering corporations. The authors explore the history and politics of several organisations related to women in engineering, and conclude with an analysis of a range of campaigns that have been waged to address the issue of women s minority status in engineering."

Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power" will be of great interest to students of feminist economics, and is also relevant to researchers in women s studies and engineering education.

Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in attracting and retaining women in engineering.

This book analyses the outcomes of a decade-long investigation into this phenomenon, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change? The study includes data from two major surveys, accounts from female engineers in a range of locations and engineering fields, and case studies of three large engineering corporations. The authors explore the history and politics of several organisations related to women in engineering, and conclude with an analysis of a range of campaigns that have been waged to address the issue of women s minority status in engineering."

Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power" will be of great interest to students of feminist economics, and is also relevant to researchers in women s studies and engineering education.

My journey goes back to one hot, summer day in June, 2001. My journey has been a very long and educational experience for me. It took me eight years to find the courage and the strength since the day the Lord told me to write this book. I had a lot of growing up to do and I just thank God for the long process because it has helped me to get to the point to were I am today. I am a different person than I was eight years ago and I owe it all to God. I have been saved now for 13-years and have been walking in my calling for about one month. I had been avoiding my calling as a prophetess. I felt like God could not use someone like me because I had made so many mistakes. I felt like I had let God down so many times and that he did not want to have anything more to do with me. When God reassured me that I am still somebody, a child of Christ, and confirmed he still loves me no matter what I have done in the past, I knew I could hold my head up high once again.