Karen Horting, CAE Executive Director and CEO she/her Each year, the SWE Magazine State of Women in Engineering issue offers a critical opportunity to pause, reassess, and reflect — not only on where women in engineering and technology stand today, but also on what forc...

Since 2017, the Society of Women Engineers has produced an annual analysis of peer-reviewed research that examines the complex relationship between gender and the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM. As the most comprehensive social science e...

After two years of strictly virtual meetings with United States legislators and their staffs, SWE members return to Capitol Hill this March to advocate issues important to women in STEM. Providing data and resources to support our requests and highlight the need for greater ...

As we do every year, SWE has taken on the enormous task of summarizing broad-ranging, interesting, and timely research about women in engineering. With 20 years of literature reviews behind us, this year we have taken a retrospective view of the last two decades to compile a...

The literature review team undertook the painstaking task of examining nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles, books, and papers presented at major conferences on various aspects of gender inequality in engineering and STEM more generally, summarizing the main findings of the bes...