Abstract
After hearing about the personal satisfaction the women in our sample gained from their work, we might have been forgiven for accepting one person’s view of their choice:
All the girls that I’ve met haven’t drifted into engineering; they are there because they believe in it. (Jennifer)
In fact, we were surprised by the haphazard nature of the decisionmaking process and its generally serendipitous outcome.
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© 1990 Ruth Carter and Gill Kirkup
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Carter, R., Kirkup, G. (1990). The critical step. In: Women in Engineering. Women in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20409-0_4
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