(321.pdf) FORGET I'M A GIRL: ENDURING GENDER IDENTITY AND NEGOTIATION IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND BEYOND

摘要

This qualitative research examines how undergraduate female engineering students perceive andnegotiate their gender identities to successfully persist in engineering education. This institutional casestudy of a public Research I American institution focuses on the individual, institutional, and culturalperceptions of gender performativity within a network and the strategies and negotiations employed byundergraduate female engineering students to achieve their educational goals regarding each of theseperspectives. Findings reveal female students utilize strategies of solidarity, camouflage and costume,as well as internal and external support to persist in engineering education. The lack of associationwith engineering networks influences female engineering students in their future engineering ortraditionally gendered career decisions.