Examining how social networks influence women and under-represented minority students' pursuit of engineering in university: when, who, and how?

• Egile Nagusiak: Hesborn Wao (Egilea), Gladis Kersaint (Egilea), Chrystal A. S. Smith (Egilea), Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo (Egilea), Ellen Puccia (Egilea), John Skvoretz (Egilea), Julie P. Martin (Egilea), Reginald Lee (Egilea), George MacDonald (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: SpringerOpen, 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Women and under-represented minority (URM) students continue to be under-represented in STEM and earn the lowest proportion of undergraduate engineering degrees. We employed a mixed methods research approach grounded in social capital theory to investigate when they first conside...