in 2002 or 2003 I was conducting a group workshop on leadership skills which drew participants from all over the world. On a break, one of the students came up to me. She was urbane, well-spoken and competent. She pulled me aside and said something that helps me to keep things in perspective: “Rob, I [...]
Even in difficult economic times, competition for highly skilled software and hardware engineers is fierce. What is particularly difficult is to build an engineering workforce with gender diversity. In an interesting new research report from the NBER, titled Why do Women Leave Science and Engineering, Jennifer Hunt examines the factors driving women trained as engineers [...]
