Are We behaving Well? Why Women leave STEM at 40. thanks to David Brin (the SCIENCE fiction author, and a champion for civilization) I'm made aware of a study that finds that nearly half of the women that START a career in the STEM arenas the IEEE tries to encourage (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Leave the field between the ages of 35-40. And the top reason is apparently related to gender discrimination and sexual harassment. The study found that 63% of these women had experience sexual harassment in the work place.

The IEEE ethics statement points 8 and 9 can be interpreted to addresses this.

• to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or national origin;
  
• to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;
  

As IEEE volunteers we ALSO need to be extremely careful in our behavior towards other volunteers. What would you consider to be "bad behavior" on the part of IEEE volunteers?

Labels: career, IEEE, women_in_engineering

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