Dada, Aderemi and Raji, Oluyemi (2019) BRIDGING THE GENDER GAP IN ENROLMENT INTO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT IN HIGHER INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA. In: 1st National Conference of WITED, Ilaro Chapter, August 13-16, 2019, The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro.
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The focus of the paper is to examine the wide gap between the number of male and female students enrolment into mechanical engineering programme in some tertiary institutions in Nigeria with a view to proffer feasible solutions. The study employed descriptive research method for the investigation on the low enrolment of female students into mechanical engineering department in some schools in the South West, Nigeria, to illustrate the gross disparity. The choice of mechanical engineering as a profession is not in the radar of many female students seeking admission into higher institutions because of the perceived difficulty associated with mathematics, physics and technical drawing. The perception that mechanical engineering profession is unbefitting and hazardous for women is another major factors that is responsible for the low enrolment of female students into mechanical engineering departments of the institutions that were examined. The result of the comparative analysis of the data available confirmed the huge gap in favour of male students. Conclusion and recommendations were made based on the comparative analysis
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Engineering Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email [email protected] |
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2021 09:23 |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2021 13:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/1377 |
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