Women’s departure or nonentrance into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions, particularly engineering, has been a lively source of scholarly inquiry for the past three decades. Much of the literature in this area has been with solely female samples of participants, begging the question as to whether or not men and women either choose to leave the profession or not enter for the same or similar reasons. This present study collected a large sample of men (n = 1,273) who had either left or never entered the engineering profession and compared their responses to a large sample of women (n = 1,235) on a set of categorical response variables. Using the perspective of the Theory of Work Adjustment, our results suggest that there are gender differences in reasons for departure, raising the possibility that engineering climates differentially reinforce needs for men and women. Implications of this research are discussed.

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探索赔率：离开工程行业的性别差异

在过去的三十年中，妇女离开或不参加科学，技术，工程和数学专业，尤其是工程专业一直是学术研究的活跃来源。这个领域的许多文献都是女性参与者的样本，这引发了一个问题，即男人和女人是否出于相同或相似的原因而选择退出该行业。本研究收集了一大批从未离开或从未进入过工程行业的男性样本（n = 1,273），并将他们的反应与大量女性样本（n = 1,235）的分类反应变量进行了比较。从工作调整理论的角度来看，我们的结果表明，离职原因存在性别差异，增加了工程气候差异地增加了男性和女性需求的可能性。讨论了这项研究的含义。