Did You Know Female Engineers Are More Common in Muslim Countries Than in the United States?
Jennifer DeBoer
Written by Teuta Hoxha on October 6, 2016
Female engineers are more common in Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia than in the United States – the enrollment rates of women in these countries are as high as 50 percent and many of us wonder why.
To find an answer, Washington State University researchers have been given a $589,200 grant to try and understand why a significantly higher number of women in predominately Muslim countries choose to study engineering than in the USA...