A diary study of engineers in Canadian companies shows that even among these well-established professionals, negative conversations with male colleagues still cause female engineers to feel that they are stereotyped as inferior, says a team led by William M. Hall of the University of British Columbia. The women’s resultant daily fluctuations in feelings of being stereotyped predict their daily levels of mental exhaustion and psychological burnout. Women make up just 10-13pc of the engineering workforce and are leaving the profession at a higher rate than from any scientific or technical field.

(Source: Social Psychological & Personality Science)

Published in Dawn, Economic & Business, May 25th, 2015

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