{"id":5666,"date":"2011-08-27T22:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T06:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2011-08-27T22:49:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T06:49:51","slug":"do-romantic-thoughts-reduce-womens-interest-in-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/do-romantic-thoughts-reduce-womens-interest-in-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Romantic Thoughts Reduce Women&#8217;s Interest in Engineering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nIf romance reduce girls&#8217; pursuit in engineering, probably the reverse is also true that girls choose engineering have less interest in romance as well.  They should do a follow up research and survey a large sample of engineering girls, see how many of them had a boyfriend in high school.<\/p>\n<p>Now, someone should come up with a research showing male engineers are not romantic, so Pat cannot complain I am not romantic.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BY Steven Cherry, IEEE Spectrum, Fri, August 26, 2011<br \/>\nA new study suggests thoughts of romance can reduce college women&#8217;s interest in science and engineering<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, when women first began enrolling at universities in record numbers, many people wondered: \u201cWhy weren\u2019t more of them studying engineering?\u201d Fifty years later, we\u2019re still wondering. Only one in seven U.S. engineers is a woman. The so-called \u201cengineering gender gap\u201d is still a chasm.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not likely to change very quickly. The average college graduate nowadays is a woman\u201457 percent to 43\u2014but when it comes to the so-called STEM fields, that\u2019s science, technology, engineering, and math, women account for only 35 percent. And most of those are for life and physical sciences, not engineering or computer science.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a problem perhaps best examined by psychologists, and examining it they are. And a new series of studies argues that\u2014as clich\u00e9d as it sounds\u2014maybe love really does have something to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>An article based on the studies, will be published next month in the peer-reviewed journal, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>My guest today is the paper\u2019s lead author. Lora Park is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo, in New York, and principal investigator at the Self and Motivation Lab there. She joins us by phone.A new study suggests thoughts of romance can reduce college women&#8217;s interest in science and engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effects of Everyday Romantic Goal Pursuit on Women&#8217;s Attitudes Toward Math and Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe present research examined the impact of everyday romantic goal strivings on women\u2019s attitudes toward science, technology,engineering, and math (STEM). It was hypothesized that women may distance themselves from STEM when the goal to be romantically desirable is activated because pursuing intelligence goals in masculine domains (i.e., STEM) conflicts with pursuing romantic goals associated with traditional romantic scripts and gender norms. Consistent with hypotheses, women, but not men, who viewed images (Study 1) or overheard conversations (Studies 2a-2b) related to romantic goals reported less positive attitudes toward STEM and less preference for majoring in math\/science compared to other disciplines. On days when women pursued romantic goals, the more romantic activities they engaged in and the more desirable they felt, but the fewer math activities they engaged in. Furthermore, women\u2019s previous day romantic goal strivings predicted feeling more desirable but being less invested in math on the following day (Study 3). <\/p>\n<p>Link to the paper: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalo.edu\/news\/pdf\/August11\/ParkRomanticAttitudes.pdf\">http:\/\/www.buffalo.edu\/news\/pdf\/August11\/ParkRomanticAttitudes.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If romance reduce girls&#8217; pursuit in engineering, probably the reverse is also true that girls choose engineering have less interest in romance as well. They should do a follow up research and survey a large sample of engineering girls, see how many of them had a boyfriend in high school. Now, someone should come up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/do-romantic-thoughts-reduce-womens-interest-in-engineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do Romantic Thoughts Reduce Women&#8217;s Interest in Engineering?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"lc_iscn_info":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[193,326],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_newsclips","tag-engineering","tag-ieee-spectrum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do Romantic Thoughts Reduce Women&#039;s Interest in Engineering? 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