DocumentCode
2422021
Title
We´re all the same (women in engineering)
Author
Failor, Rebecca A.
Author_Institution
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
Feb. 26 1990-March 2 1990
Firstpage
600
Lastpage
602
Abstract
Women in the technical workplace often find that they are treated differently from their male peers. Whereas gender is not an issue in the competency of employees in today´s technical facilities, the so-called genderless workplace still does not exist. The genderless workplace is one in which employees are hired on the basis of qualifications and those features that make each person an individual but are not pluses or minuses on the job are ignored. Several areas, ranging from the day-to-day work environment to the responsibilities of employees who are parents, are considered with regard to achieving the goal of the genderless workplace. The efforts that can be made in a company to fully integrate the technical women on the staff into the team, from changes in the day-to-day decorum of the work environment to the equality of working parents, are discussed.<>
Keywords
engineering; genderless workplace; technical women; technical workplace; women employees; work environment; Calendars; Chemistry; Cities and towns; Employment; Glass; Hair; Ice; Laboratories; Materials science and technology; Qualifications;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Compcon Spring '90. Intellectual Leverage. Digest of Papers. Thirty-Fifth IEEE Computer Society International Conference.
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-2028-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CMPCON.1990.63746
Filename
63746
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