Factors Affecting Academic Performance of Women in Engineering Education and Their Experience of Participation in Employment: Literature Review

Abstract

Engineering education is the base for overall development and poverty reduction. The problem is there is higher gender disparity in the filed in most of the countries. As studies shows that Women are underrepresented both in STEM jobs and STEM undergraduate degrees and have been consistently over the last decade due to many factors that affects their academic performance in engineering education that leads to being underrepresented in employment also. Although the involvement of women in engineering is increasing, they are still viewed as a minority in the field. The purpose of this paper is t factors that affect academic performance of women in engineering education and their experience of employment by reviewing previous research works. There are many factors that affecting academic performance of women in engineering education which contributes low performance than their counterpart that leads to women being underrepresented in engineering employment.

Keywords: Women, Engineers Education, Academic Performance, Employment, Literature Review