Dive Brief:

• The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), a primary resource for knowledge, information and trends on women in engineering, is launching a new tool, research.swe.org, that provides clarity on the data available on women engineers. It also offers centralized data source for members and individuals interested in locating information about women in engineering—including employers looking to recruit women for engineering jobs.
• The new website features trends and data on women in engineering and the STEM landscape across the globe from the K-12 level, collegiate to professional, according to SWE.
• Additionally, it features SWE's own research to augment the knowledge base around issues affecting female engineers' success. SWE reports that being able to provide data and information to inform decisions that affect women in the education sector and the workplace is an important part of the organization's goal "to advocate for the success of women in engineering and technology."

Dive Insight:

Roberta Rincon, PhD, manager of research at SWE, said her organization's strong membership base and historical knowledge makes it an authority on female engineering issues, and this new site is a way to "build upon this knowledge and provide access to our work."

For employers who have engineering workers, finding and keeping women has always been a challenge. Some of SWE's most recent research looks at female attrition in the STEM workplace – the first gender-based workplace culture study of its kind conducted in the STEM space in the U.S. It's well-known that women in engineering and other male-dominated fields are often under high stress. Along those lines, SWE plans to release a study later this year that focuses on workplace experiences, and gender and racial bias.