Women of Color Face Tough Road.

• Position: ENGINEERING - Gender and racial biases in the workplace - Brief article

There is a lack of role models for women of color in engineering; gender and racial biases encountered in the workplace; and a level of disillusionment regarding the impact that they would have as engineers, maintains a joint study by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Chicago, III., and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Alexandria, Va.

"With fewer than five percent of working engineers being women of color, more attention and support could help to increase diversity in the engineering profession," says Roberta Rincon. manager of Research at SWE.

A number of women in the study indicated they were dissatisfied with their salary and benefits. More than 60% stated that they had not negotiated salary when they were offered their first job...