Climate Control: Gender and Racial Bias in Engineering?

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Joan Williams

UC Law, San Francisco

Su Li

UC Law, San Francisco

Roberta Rincon

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Peter Finn

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: October 2016

Abstract

Over 3,000 respondents completed the Workplace Experiences Survey launched by the Society of Women Engineers and the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Around one-third (897) of respondents left comments - a strikingly high number. The number and tone of comments show engineers’ intense interest in, and strong reaction to, the topic of implicit bias in engineering. The survey asked respondents whether they had been met with the basic patterns of gender and racial bias that have been documented, over and over again, in social psychology studies.

Suggested Citation

Williams, Joan and Li, Su and Rincon, Roberta and Finn, Peter, Climate Control: Gender and Racial Bias in Engineering? (October 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4014946 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4014946

Joan Williams (Contact Author)

UC Law, San Francisco ( email )

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Su Li

UC Law, San Francisco

CA
United States

Roberta Rincon

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Peter Finn

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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