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The Effect Of Generation On Retention Of Women Engineers In Aerospace And Industry, Kristine Maria Kiernan
The Effect Of Generation On Retention Of Women Engineers In Aerospace And Industry, Kristine Maria Kiernan
Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the nature and extent of differences between generational cohorts regarding the effect of family factors on retention of women in engineering, with an emphasis on women in the aerospace industry. While 6% of the aerospace workforce is made up of aeronautical engineers, an additional 11.2% of the aerospace workforce is drawn from other engineering disciplines. Therefore, the analysis included all engineering sub-disciplines. In order to include women who had left the workforce, women in all industries were used as a proxy for women in aerospace.
Exits to other fields were modeled separately …