Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to women in STEM careers: international perspectives on increasing workforce participation, advancement and leadership / Diana Bilimoria, Linley Lord and Melissa Marinelli -- Women persisting in the engineering profession: the role of the ideal self and engagement / Kathleen Buse and Diana Bilimoria -- To stay or to leave: factors that differentiate women currently working in engineering from those who left the profession / Romila Singh, Nadya A. Fouad, Mary Fitzpatrick, Catia Figueiredo and Wen Hsin Chang -- Deciding to stay or go: understanding the career intentions of women in the Australian mining industry / Margaret Nowak, Melissa Marinelli, Linley Lord and Dede Bonner -- Family issues for women engineers / Mary Ayre, Julie Mills and Judith Gill -- Onwards and upwards: insights from women managers and leaders in engineering / Melissa Marinelli and Linley Lord -- Women as power resources: putting theory into practice / Charlotte Holgersson, Pia Höök and Anna Wahl -- Effective practices to increase women's participation, advancement and leadership in US academic STEM / Diana Bilimoria and Xiangfen Liang -- Professional societies and gender equity in STEM / Erin L. Cadwalader, Joan M. Herbers and Alice B. Popejoy -- Gender equality interventions in the STEM fields: perceptions, successes and dilemmas / Marieke van den Brink and Lineke Stobbe -- Dare to care: negotiating organizational norms on combining career and care in an engineering faculty / Channah Herschberg, Claartje J. Vinkenburg, Inge L. Bleijenbergh and Marloes L. van Engen -- 'Engineering is gendered' is a threshold concept / Sally Male.