engineering degrees awarded to
women continued to grow, but at a
much slower rate, reaching a high of
20.6% in 2000 before slipping back to
18.6% in 2007. In terms of absolute
numbers, more than 1,000 women
earned bachelor’s degrees in engineering
for the first time in 1976, growing
more than ten times to exceed 10,000
in 1984 and then creeping to a peak of
more than 15,000 in 2004 Di Fabio
et al. 2008.