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Female Engineering Students

Career Attractors

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GIEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers

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There are still relatively few women in engineering studies in Australia. In overall completions, women are outnumbered by men 5:1 in Engineering and related technologies. At the same time many industries such as mining, construction and rail are in a growth phase. However, the rail industry, particularly, is not attracting sufficient engineers and skilled technicians from within the Australian labour market and is facing widespread retirements from an ageing workforce. Rail is thus trying to actively attract early and mid-career engineers and skilled technical workers and is in competition for talent with other industries.

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  1. Associate Professor of Human Resources, Southern Cross University, Australia

    Michelle Wallace

  2. Professor of Marketing, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    Ian Lings

  3. Research Associate, Southern Cross Business School, Australia

    Neroli Sheldon

  4. Senior Lecturer, Central Queensland University, Australia

    Roslyn Cameron

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  2. Université Paris-Est-Créteil and Institute d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, France

    Anne-Sophie Godfroy

  3. Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France

    Jean Michel

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Wallace, M., Lings, I., Sheldon, N., Cameron, R. (2012). Female Engineering Students. In: Béraud, A., Godfroy, AS., Michel, J. (eds) GIEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-982-4_17

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