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HON 3260: Underrepresented Groups in Science: Retention/
Attrition

ARTICLES & ONLINE SOURCES

Lien, T. (February 22, 2015). Why are women leaving the tech industry in droves? Los Angeles Times Online. 


Fleur, N. S. (2014). Many women leave engineering, blame the work culture. NPR: All Tech Considered.


Hunt, J. (2010). Why do women leave science and engineering? NBER Working Paper No. 15853, National Bureau of Economic Research.


O’Brien, K. R., & Hapgood, K. P. (2012). The academic jungle: Ecosystem modelling reveals why women are driven out of research. Oikos, 121(7), 999–1004. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20601.x


Glass, J. L., Sassler, S., Levitte, Y., & Michelmore, K. M. (2013). What’s so special about STEM? A comparison of women’s retention in STEM and professional occupations. Social Forces, 92(2), 723-756.


Fouad, N., Romila, S., Fitzpatrick, M. E., & Liu, J. P. (2012). Stemming the tide: Why women leave engineering. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.


Buse, K., Bilimoria, D., & Perelli, S. (1996). Why they stay: Women persisting in U.S. engineering careers. Career Development International, 18(2), 139-154. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/CDI-11-2012-0108


Wyer, M. (2003). Intending to stay: Images of scientists, attitudes towards women, and gender as influences on persistence among science and engineering majors. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 9(1), 1-16.


Estrada, M., Burnett, M., Campbell, A. G., Campbell, P. B., Denetclaw, W. F., Gutiérrez, C. G., & ... Zavala, M. (2016). Improving underrepresented minority student persistence in STEM. CBE - Life Sciences Education, 15(3), 1-10.


Gumpertz, M., Durodoye, R., Griffith, E., & Wilson, A. (2017). Retention and promotion of women and underrepresented minority faculty in science and engineering at four large land grant institutions. Plos ONE, 12(11), 1-17. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0187285


Museus, S. D., & Liverman, D. (2010). High-performing institutions and their implications for studying underrepresented minority students in STEM. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010(148), 17-27. doi:10.1002/ir.358


Gasman, M., Nguyen, T., Conrad, C. F., Lundberg, T., & Commodore, F. (2017). Black male success in STEM: A case study of Morehouse College. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 10(2), 181-200.


MacLean, L. M. (2017). Cracking the code: How to get women and minorities into STEM disciplines and why we must. New York: Momentum Press. (Ebook available through GSU Library)


Hilts, A., Part, R., & Bernacki, M. L. (2018). The roles of social influences on student competence, relatedness, achievement, and retention in STEMScience Education, 102(4), 744-770. doi:10.1002/sce.21449


Espinosa, L. L. (2011). Pipelines and pathways: Women of color in undergraduate STEM majors and the college experiences that contribute to persistence.Harvard Educational Review, 81(2), 209-240,388.

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