The New Engineer: Black and White, Male and Female.

Autor/inn/en	LeBold, William K.; und weitere
Titel	The New Engineer: Black and White, Male and Female.
Quelle	(1983), (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Blacks; Career Choice; Employment Level; Engineering Education; Engineers; Females; Graduate Surveys; Higher Education; Hispanic Americans; Job Performance; Minority Groups; Nontraditional Students; Performance Factors; Racial Differences; Salaries; Self Concept; Sex Differences; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Black person; Schwarzer; Beschäftigungsgrad; Ingenieurausbildung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Ethnische Minderheit; Leistungsindikator; Rassenunterschied; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Selbstkonzept; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	This report examines and compares early career decisions, initial and 1981 employment, professional activities, and post-graduate education of new, non-traditional engineering graduates (women, Hispanics, Blacks) with their traditional peers. About one-half of the 6,000 surveys mailed to a sample of these engineering graduates (N=1720 men and 1080 women) were returned. Relatively few differences between male/female and minority/majority graduates were found in their initial/current employment, professional activities/achievement, and factors influencing career decisions. Technical responsibilities increased with experiences with no significant sex/ethnic differences. Men reported significantly higher supervisory responsibilities and salaries 10 years after graduating than women. The majority of all groups had pursued or were pursuing some post-bachelor's education, with women/Black-Americans leaning more toward graduate work in management than men/majority graduates. Work-related factors tended to be the most important factors influencing engineers' career decisions; female/minority graduates were more apt to cite a wider variety of factors than male/minority graduates. Men were more apt than women to cite relevant work experiences and hobbies as factors influencing their career decision. Engineers had relatively high self-perceptions. Men were more likely to assess their athletic, mechanical, and visualization abilities higher than women, but women rated their artistic, mathematical, and interpersonal-relations abilities higher than men. (Author/JN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC