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Although women are highly recruited by German universities in the last years, they are strongly underrepresented in engineering and technology. Universities developed strategies to balance the gender gap. One focused strategy concentrated on single-sex measures for women.
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Oechtering, V., Schulte, M. (2012). The Micropolitics of Disciplinary Summer Universities for Women. 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_21
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