Re: Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering

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The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Robert Fuller of the PhysLrnR list referenced an Inside Higher Ed report on “Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering” [Cech et al. (2011)] and asked in his subject line “How relevant is this to physics?” In my opinion:

a. YES! -Cech et al. (2011)] IS relevant to physics. According to Berrett (2011): “Cech et al. suggest that the findings about professional-role confidence may be relevant in other fields in which women are historically underrepresented, including physical science and medical specialties such as surgery.”

b. A companion piece “Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Physics” could be probably be extracted from the resources in “Gender Issues in Science/Math Education (GISME)” [Hake & Mallow (2008) at http://bit.ly/gXdrvR (8.5 MB) and http://bit.ly/fBTzqV (4.8 MB)].
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
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REFERENCES [All URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 4 Nov 2011.]
Berrett, D. 2011. "Lack of Confidence as Professionals Spurs Women to Leave Engineering, Study Finds." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 October; online at http://bit.ly/vFNSWC.

Cech, E., B. Rubineau, S. Silbey, and C. Seron. 2011. “Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering,” American
Sociological Review 76 (5): 641.

Hake, R.R. 2011. “Re: Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/vtdY62. Post of 4 Nov 2011 14:45:16-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.