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When You Work in a Male-Dominated Industry

Women at Work

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The Role of Women in Engineering

In some of the research that I've been doing lately, we found that the roles that women perform in engineering can often seem less valued within the profession. And so I think that combined with this kind of outsider status and men sort of speaking more confidently contributes to this confidence gap. But there's really no evidence that women are underperforming compared to men. So they're equally capable. They just might view the situation a little bit differently.

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