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Females were more likely than male students to work for pay for a faculty member
and/or do research with them (see Table IIC-10). They were also more likely to have
received help from a faculty member regarding a job.
Gender
TABLE IIC-10
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES WITH FACULTY BY GENDER
Male Female Total
Enrichment Activity
% Worked for faculty member for pay 20.7 29.7 22.5
%Conducted research with faculty member 20.0 32.3 22.5
%Got job reference or help getting job from
faculty member
21.7 38.6 25.2
Females are also more likely than males to identify a faculty member as being
particularly supportive of them during the academic year (Table IIC-11). Only 18% of the
females said there was no particular faculty member supportive of them during the year,
compared to 22.4% of the males. While females are more likely to identify a female
faculty member in this role, and male students to identify a male faculty member in this
role, the majority of students identified both male and female faculty members as
particularly supportive.
In sum, in terms of enrichment activities with faculty, female students are more
engaged than male students on almost every indicator. As we shall see below, this stands
in contrast to other national samples and is indicative of the strong integration of female
students into the engineering culture at Rowan.
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