Engineering is considered to be a challenging yet rewarding field to be in and a field that plays an important role in any country’s development and growth. In particular, tertiary degrees in Engineering are crucial in the Arab countries like Qatar, as most of its industries rely on oil and gas production. However, the mentality of Arab society especially in Qatar, strongly disapproves of the idea of females entering the field of engineering and the idea of females studying or working in a mixed gender environment. This paper provides a detailed insight into the Arab culture, specifically, the Qatari culture’s thoughts in women in engineering. To gather information, published research papers were analyzed and studied, and three of interviews were conducted with females in Qatar’s engineering industry.
The results will show how the socio-cultural factors in Qatar plays a main role in hindering females from pursuing engineering. The three main factors are gender roles, female education, female in mixed workplace. These factors are unfortunately depriving some women from their rights of independence, education, and choice of career. This paper concludes with some recommendations for not put obstacles for women to study/work in the field of Engineering.
My name Maha Al-Sheeb. I am a joiner chemical engineer student Class of 2020. I have one brother and one sister. I joined the Academic bridge program in 2014. I believes in “Difficult roads often leads to beautiful destination” Grand.Aspiration.
Dr. Amy Hodges is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches technical and professional writing courses. Currently, she is working on a project examining writing strategies used by engineers in multinational workplaces and the impact of these findings on writing programs. Her research has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and previous ASEE conference proceedings.
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