The Impact of Women on Engineering: A Study of Female Engineering Students' Thesis Topics*

Abstract

With a focus on technological practice, this paper detects and discusses changes that arose-or did not arise-as Swedish women entered engineering across a broader front. For this analysis, quantitative and qualitative data are related. A specifically new empirical source for the purpose of gender and technology studies is explored and described, namely M.Sc. theses by women engineering students. The conclusion is that the technology displayed in the women's theses does not differ from engineering science in general.