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Women in Engineering- Discuss the processes (according to research), by which women have been excluded Man for the field and women for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart; Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion. (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1847) Occupational segregation by sex is to a large extent a women's issue, since it is more detrimental for them than for men. Barriers against professional women have been framed in two different ways, emphasizing two stages at which obstacles might occur: a threshold "beyond which gender no longer matters" and a "glass ceiling of gender specific obstacles to advancement into top positions". In the first, women encounter difficulties advancing into a field but the obstacles fall away once a certain status is reached. In the second there is a particular career level women may attain at which point a blockage...

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