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“Why Women Become Veterinarians But Not Engineers”

Filed under Career Exploration, Employment Outlook, Women and Careers
Posted by Libraries, May 24, 2007
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Rachel Maines, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/25/07, 53(38), p. B9.

This essay raises the question of why women make up an overwhelming majority of veterinary students, but only a tiny minority in engineering and technology programs. While the leaders in the veterinarian field, both academically and professionally, are still majority male, the number of women currently studying to become veterinarians represents a gender shift that is unprecedented in any other profession. Unfortunately, there has been no to help uncover the reasons for this “spontaneous” change, and there are no clear-cut explanations for this shift. The author rebuts several hypotheses as invalid because their reasoning should apply to both genders or to other scientific fields, and yet this dramatic change is happening exclusively in this profession. She concludes with a call for more research on the subject in order to follow the veterinarian model (if such a model exists), and “bring more women into male-dominated fields.”

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http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i38/38b00901.htm

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