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Woman Engineer Magazine, launched in 1979, is a career-guidance and recruitment magazine offered at no charge to qualified women engineering, computer science and information technology students & professionals seeking employment and advancement opportunities in their careers.

This magazine reaches students and professional women engineers nationwide at their home addresses, colleges and universities, and chapters of student and professional organizations.

If you are a woman engineering student or professional, Woman Engineer is available to you FREE!


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 23RD ANNUAL READER SURVEY

Joann Whitcher
 
 
TOP BENEFITS SOUGHT ARE HEALTH INSURANCE, PENSION PLANS, & FAMILY-FRIENDLY BENEFITS
 
TWO-THIRDS (67%) OF THE RESPONDENTS IN WOMAN ENGINEER MAGAZINE’S “23ND ANNUAL READER SURVEY” REPORTED HEALTH INSURANCE IS A KEY BENEFIT AN IDEAL WORK ENVIRONMENT, FOLLOWED BY FAMILY FRIENDLY BENEFITS AND PENSION PLANS. ALSO SOUGHT AFTER BY A LARGE NUMBER OF OUR READERS IS FLEXTIME, WHICH 43% SEE AS A CRITICAL BENEFIT. ROUNDING OUT THE TOP FIVE IS THE ABILITY TO TELECOMMUTE, DESIRED BY 32% OF THIS YEAR’S RESPONDENTS.
 
DELVING DEEPER INTO THE QUESTION OF HOW IMPORTANT FAMILY-FRIENDLY BENEFITS ARE WHEN CONSIDERING A JOB, 53% RESPONDED WITH A RESOUNDING “YES,” WHILE ANOTHER 22% SAID THE BENEFIT IS “SLIGHTLY IMPORTANT.” ONLY 1.9% THOUGHT THESE BENEFITS WEREN’T IMPORTANT AT ALL.
 
WITH THE CRY FOR WOMEN ENGINEERS A HOT TOPIC, WE ONCE AGAIN ASKED READERS IF THEY ARE BEING TREATED EQUALLY VS. THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS. ON THE JOB, THE NUMBERS SHOW WOMEN ARE EXPERIENCING ALL FACETS OF GENDER EQUALITY, BOTH GOOD AND BAD. OF THIS YEAR’S RESPONDENTS, 43.2% SAID THEIR EMPLOYERS “NEED IMPROVEMENT” WHEN IT COMES TO TREATING THEM EQUALLY, COMPARED WITH 27.3% THE PRIOR YEAR, WHILE 20.4% REPLIED THAT THEY ARE ONLY “SLIGHTLY” TREATED EQUALLY, COMPARED WITH 34% LAST YEAR. WOMEN WHO REPORTED THEY’RE “VERY MUCH” TREATED EQUALLY” SHRUNK, FROM 38.6% LAST YEAR TO 36.4% THIS YEAR.
 
OF THE 44.4% RESPONDENTS REPORTING THEY WERE ACTIVELY PURSUING A NEW JOB, ONLY 1.8% WERE WILLING TO LOOK OUTSIDE THE U.S. FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
 
IN THE SURVEY, FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY-COLLEGE STUDENTS AND WOMEN PROFESSIONALS IN A MYRIAD OF CAREER DISCIPLINES FROM COAST-TO-COAST DETAIL THEIR GOALS AND ON-THE-JOB EXPERIENCES AT MAJOR ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE EMPLOYERS AND LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
 
TO COMPILE A ROSTER OF THE PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR READERS, WOMAN ENGINEER MAGAZINE QUESTIONED UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS, ENTRY-LEVEL WORKERS, AND MANAGERS, SUPERVISORS, AND EXECUTIVES ABOUT THEIR AGE, GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, AND FIELD OF STUDY OR CAREER DISCIPLINE.
 
IN WHAT HAS BECOME AN ANNUAL LISTING, WE ALSO ASKED RESPONDENTS TO NAME THE TOP THREE EMPLOYERS IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS FOR WHOM THEY WOULD MOST LIKE TO WORK OR THAT THEY BELIEVE WOULD PROVIDE A POSITIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENT FOR WOMEN ENGINEERS. WE ALSO ASKED THEM TO OFFER ADVICE TO EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO HIRE WOMEN ENGINEERS AND FOR OTHER WOMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS.
 
WHO YOU ARE
Woman Engineer magazine readers from private-sector companies and government agencies, as well as colleges and universities, throughout the country received in the mail this year’s survey. Of the respondents, this year 13.3% were students, compared with 7.4% last year.
 
Geographically, the answers’ points of origin covered the country – with the Northeast accounting for 31.25%; the Southeast, 12.5%; West, 22.9%; Midwest, 27.1%; and Southwest, 6.25.%.
 
Of the respondents who revealed their age, 22.2% fell in the 50 and older group; 35.6% were 36-50; 28.9% were 26-35 years old; and 13.3% were 18-25.
 
WHAT YOU DO
This survey is proof of the varied opportunities available to professional women engineers, as respondents are working in a host of engineering and related fields, including aerospace, electrical, petroleum, computer science, chemical, mathematics, manufacturing, mechanical, civil, optical, environmental, industrial, biomedical, biochemical, information technology, ceramic, nuclear, construction, and as university professors.
 
WHAT YOU THINK
Readers cited the following benefits as being essential to complete their career options in today’s competitive job market (in order of most cited):
 
For employers looking to hire more women engineers, respondents had a range of advice:
 
For students and fellow women engineer professionals, our respondents gendered this advice:
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