‘They're not girly girls’: an exploration of quantitative and qualitative data on engineering and gender in higher education

This article was published in the journal, European Journal of Engineering Education [© Taylor & Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2012.661702Despite sustained efforts to promote engineering careers to young women, it remains the most male-dominated academic discipline in Europe. This paper will provide an overview of UK data and research on women in engineering higher education, within the context of Europe. Comparisons between data from European countries representing various regions of Europe will highlight key differences and similarities between these nations in terms of women in engineering. Also, drawing on qualitative research the paper will explore UK students' experiences of gender, with a particular focus on the decision to study engineering and their experiences in higher education. © 2012 Copyright SEFI

Women in engineering education in Turkey: Understanding the gendered distribution

The average percentage of female students in engineering departments in Turkey of 25% in 1998, allows its to argue that women are capable of representing themselves in this field to some extent. However, a detailed examination reveals that the distribution of female students in engineering departments is not even: they are more greatly represented in some departments than others. It can be argued therefore that women in Turkey have a reasonable opportunity of being represented in the field of engineering, which has been a male dominated area nevertheless they exist in this realm with respect to their gender roles. In other words, areas that can be described as 'masculine' engineering departments and feminine' engineering departments have been affected and the decisions of female and male students in their choices of departments have been affected by this configuration. In this article, I firstly provide the data revealing this uneven distribution of women in different engineering departments of the universities in Turkey. Then I start investigating possible causes of this gendered distribution with an emphasis on the discursively constructed 'Masculine' and of engineering departments. This assessment is an outcome of the interviews that I have conducted with 15 women engineers from February 2000 to April 2000 in Turkey. Their experiences during their educational period with institutional structures and individuals such as professors and the other students, and their discourses on 'engineering' and their own departments are emphasized

Legal pluralism and the Shari'a: a comparison of Greece and Turkey

Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.The creation of a national and unified legal system was an important aspect of the rise of the modern state and national citizenship. However, this interpretation of legal rationalization has been challenged by sociologists of law such as Eugene Ehrlich (1862–1922) who claimed that this juridical theory of state-centred law masked the presence of customary laws outside this formal system. In critical theories of the law, legal pluralism is proposed against the idea of legal sovereignty or legal centralism. In this article we explore the implications of the growth of the Shari'a as an example of legal pluralism. We take Turkey and Greece as two interesting but different examples of legal pluralism and consider the implications of these case studies for debates about liberalism, multiculturalism and citizenship in multi-faith societies

Breast Cancer Subtypes and Outcomes of Central Nervous System Metastases

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