What drives women out of Engineering jobs?

With the changing economic situations, more and more women are taking up higher positions. This is a similar case in India too. The most interesting and wonderful thing is that we have women entrepreneurs as well as leaders in the corporate India. Some shining women in the shining India include: • Indra nooyi, CEO, PepsiCo International • Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of Biocon • Noted artist Shabana Azmi Much to our surprise, we found that overall, and in most (but not all) engineering disciplines, women earn engineering degrees at rates equal to or higher than those for men. But the number of women enrolling in engineering is so small that even if all of them stuck with the major, we would still observe serious female under-representation. In a nutshell, the number of women studying engineering is simply too small. The real problem is low enrollment, not low retention. The implications are clear. Recruitment efforts are coming up woefully short. Is it because they are insufficient, ineffective, or both? The current working engineers expressed that only fewer work-life benefits are available to them. Work-role uncertainly and a work environment that consistently undermined them can be said to be the factors that most negatively influence women's satisfaction level at work. Most women engineers contemplate on quitting their job when they feel a lack of confidence in their abilities and fail to manage multiple roles. Leaving job seems to be the only option for women when they are not being positive about the outcomes they expect from their engineering tasks. There are theories which state that the leadership styles of women and men differ a lot. It’s not the style but the ability to handle the problems well, take care of the people, see that the business capitalizes on its strengths and drives away from the competitor’s web. There is an old adage which says women are less assertive and cannot show their anger and power in public. But this is not the case these days. Times change and as do women. Women tend to change depending on the style of management and necessity. Assertiveness and soft but tough attitudes are necessary to keep up their positions and handle the work pressure and the people in the organization. With days passing on and on, there will certainly be pages on the greatness of our Indian women leadership, their traits and attitudes, the winning cases and the daring ones from which there is a lot to learn

Some times it becomes too difficult for them to cope up with the pressure if they fail to find some support in lifting heavy equipment, material, etc. High precision work involve both hand-mind coordination which becomes strenuous in the long run, leading to nervous debility, etc.

A harder working environment exposing to field work making them ignorant to this trade .

women are quiet sophisticated in nature as compared to men,and in engineering jobs mostly physical hard work is required... no dout women can perform every duty very well but they lack behind in physical strengt as compared to men... in short cheni hathodi chalana auraton ka kaam nai hai....

Describe your Idea...This has been the most important factor that has driven women out of engineering.Working and managing everything else with such a job is difficult.