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Bork, Sarah Jane; Mondisa, Joi-Lynn – Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Background: Mental health issues reported among college-aged individuals have increased. Prevalence of these issues has an established impact on students' personal, professional, and academic outcomes. Graduate students experience unique stressors that impact their mental health. In particular, engineering graduate students have lower help-seeking…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Engineering Education, Mental Health, Anxiety
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Wang, Ming-Te; Degol, Jessica L. – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
Although the gender gap in math course-taking and performance has narrowed in recent decades, females continue to be underrepresented in math-intensive fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Career pathways encompass the ability to pursue a career as well as the motivation to employ that ability. Individual differences…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, STEM Education, Females, Womens Education
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van de Rozenberg, Tessa M.; Groeneveld, Marleen G.; van Veen, Daudi P.; van der Pol, Lotte D.; Mesman, Judi – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2023
In this study, we examined gender and sexuality representation in language and math textbooks for Dutch secondary education. We analyzed all male and female characters in 13 language textbooks (N = 7,347) and 12 math textbooks (N = 4,591). Our results confirmed our expectations based on the theory of the hidden curriculum: female characters were…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Sexual Orientation, Textbook Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Lewis, Karyn L.; Stout, Jane G.; Pollack, Steven J.; Finkelstein, Noah D.; Ito, Tiffany A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
A number of cultural, social, environmental, and biological factors have been suggested to explain women's relatively lower representation in physics and other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Given its persistence, the causes of gender disparities are likely to be complex and multiply determined. In this review paper, we…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Physics