Abstract
Globally theorizing women’s experiences and exploits in engineering has attracted a lot of debates. Thus, efforts put in place to address under-representation among women in engineering, have been thwarted to accomplish Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality, in areas of preconception of engineering male-dominated profession, gender gaps in recruitment of women engineers, lack of gender-sensitive curriculum and low female involvement in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) subjects are still lacking in Africa. With much sensitization on equality, yet women engineers are still plagued with gender disparity in Africa; hence the crux of this paper. This paper was guided by Liberal Feminist Theory focusing on gender inequality, exists as a consequence ofstereotypingdivision of labour and sexparity can be realized if vital institutions are re-patterned. This paper takes a broad look at women as canons in engineering alongside theorizing their experiences and exploits in Africa. Specifically, it explores how women engineers have made huge contributions; and to showcase their experiences and exploits, as well as its implications for Africa. Thus, to address these gaps, implementing of gender policies in eliminating all forms of under-representation of women in engineering was advocated.
Highlights
In the 21st century and in fourth industrial revolution (4IR) era, engineering advocates and feminist have clamored that experiences and exploits of women in engineering should be theorized across international and national platforms
In the year 1960, women only made up around 1% of the engineering workforce, times have changed and the disparity between males and females is changing for the better (OECD, 2019; SCS, 2019)
The global statistics figures of female engineering workers revealed the percentage of women engineers in selected developed countries including: Lithuania 106, 200 (57.0%), Norway 315, 800 (54.7%), Latvia 51,400 (52.3%), Bulgaria 207,900 (51.9%), Denmark 300.200 (50.7%), Portugal 392.600 (49.9%), Poland 1,252,900 (48.7%), Ireland 247,000 (48.7%), Spain 1,425,900 (48.4%), Sweden 614,600 (48.4%), and United Kingdom 3,578.600 (40.8%)(OECD, 2019; UNESCO, 2019)
Summary
In the 21st century and in fourth industrial revolution (4IR) era, engineering advocates and feminist have clamored that experiences and exploits of women in engineering should be theorized across international and national platforms. This paper presents a systematic review methodology which explore women as canons in engineering as well as theorizing their experiences and exploits in Africa.The systematic review method adopted in this paper identifies and appraise published articles from year 2009 to 2020 in fields of Engineering, History, Education, and Sociology, systematically This was to appraise published reviews on study objectives and to discuss its implications with recommendations. The principal investigator established the typical sampling framework involving articles that were analysed, in which the articles were used to outlined the study objectives These illustrative samples were not taken wordperfect, but somewhatmade to explainexactly how analytical study on women in engineering be able to re-frame to redefine key themes and research questions in theorizing experiences and exploits in women engineers, as indicated byBrown et al (2015).
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