Understanding and Reducing Gender Gaps in Engineering Team Participation?

Systems Conversation with Neil Lewis, Assistant Professor of Communication and Social Behavior, Cornell University

How gendered patterns of participation in engineering student teams influence retention in engineering, why these gendered patterns emerge, and what can be done to address these gender gaps to equalize participation and resulting outcomes.

Neil Lewis, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Social Behavior at Cornell University with graduate field appointments in Communication and Psychology. He is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell, and a Fellow of the Dornsife Center for the Mind and Society at the University of Southern California.