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Encouraging women in engineering, math, & science.(1 WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND EARLY CHOICES)

I COME AS AN EMISSARY FROM one of Claudia Goldin's "male-intensive" majors. I am a mechanical engineer by training and, before I joined the Museum of Science, I was Dean of the School of Engineering at Tufts University. In these jobs, I have looked to promote women into leadership positions, and it has often been very difficult to find candidates. Thus I have spent a significant part of my career trying to increase the number of women studying engineering, science, and math.

My interest in encouraging young people to study engineering began in the mid 1980s when my wife and I moved to Boston. One day, I was trying to find my way to Tufts when I made a wrong turn and ended ...

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