March 18, 2024

CERSE Staff Review the Literature about Women and Girls in Engineering/ STEM for SWE Magazine

CERSE staff Ari Hock, Erin Carll, and Aryaa Rajouria reviewed the 2023 literature on women and girls in engineering/ STEM for SWE Magazine. The review is organized around several themes that arose in the literature, including intersectionality, “damage-centered” vs. “desire-based work” (see Eve Tuck’s “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities” (2009)), research from across the globe, recruitment, retention, and others. Among other things, the authors note the substantial scholarly and practical work aiming to improve equity for women and girls in STEM, which highlights both the many teams working to make change as well as the ongoing need for these efforts. Hock, Carll, and Rajouria also call for more work that explicitly and meaningfully includes the experiences of nonbinary and trans people and that takes intersectional and desire-based perspectives. The team processed over 11,000 articles and based the review on 372 relevant journal articles and conference proceedings.

Read the full literature review here: “Women in Engineering and STEM: A Review of the 2023 Literature“