When You Work in a Male-Dominated Industry

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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For women in male-dominated fields like engineering, there are lots of stressors, both subtle and overt. As a result, many end up leaving the field altogether. But the ones who stay develop strategies to survive and to even challenge the status quo. Guests: Jessica Townsend, Ana, Elena, and Teresa Cardador. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:13.0	Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.
0:17.0	That's HBS.
0:18.0	M.E slash work.
0:23.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.0	I'm Amy Galo.
0:33.6	I'm Amy Bertstein.
0:34.8	And I'm Nicole Torres.
0:36.8	We know that many of you work in fields
0:38.8	were men significantly outnumber women.
0:41.7	Back when Kelly was a lead engineer at a manufacturing plant,
0:44.4	she told us she worked among so few women that she counted them. Like the
0:48.9	building that I came from there's about 200 people and there are 10 women and then I moved to this
0:56.2	building just a month and a half ago and there's 200 people and I think maybe there's 12 women.
1:05.0	Kelly has since changed jobs.
1:07.0	Now she's a research and development engineer,
1:09.0	but she's still counting the number of women in her workplaces.
1:12.0	In her new office of about 60 people, still counting the number of women in her workplaces.
1:13.1	In her new office of about 60 people, there are seven.
1:17.3	Then there's Meredith.
1:18.6	She works in data science and has always
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