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The structural inequality that this paper seeks to deal with is the issue of engineering students where male students tend to be in more numbers than their female counter parts. The community of focus will be the international students who are perusing engineering courses in the United States (Jamison, 2013). This issue has a long dating from the book of history where international students who were going to peruse their degrees in the United States tended to avoid course such as engineering. This must be noted that the society had dictated a norm where super course or rather prestigious courses like engineering, Law and medicine were left for the men.

This theory has although been challenged all over the years but it seems it has not been totally eradicated. This is because there are some male chauvinists that believe women are not ready enough to deal with courses that are considered to be for their male counterparts, more so the international students who come from countries those women are not given any privileged to hold certain positions in the society.

This topic is more interesting to me because the current world that we are living in is the world in which we are at the wake and realization of human rights and the fact that women are not being accorded the same playing field with the men then this all questions the whole issue of equality. The change in the societal approach in how certain things were viewed for instance like fifty years ago should not be the same as today. In simple terms there should be a measure of standard for the international student community, in that the criteria that are used to select those that will be able to take engineering in the United States be amended (Howard, 2014). This criterion should be able to accommodate women, in that women may be given low qualification or rather reduction in the grade that is used to select the courses that they would take.

The research method that I am going to use is primary source in that the sources will be through interviews and also working with organizations that deal with the structural inequality. This will be organizations that will be able to ensure that equality among women is achieved and that they will be able to get the same chances as their male counter parts in the quest of getting knowledge in the engineering field. The focus will majorly be focused on international student who will be able to get the chance of giving women a more elaborate chance as the male.

In summary the research tends to give a priority to reasons as to why international students who come to pursue higher education specifically engineering sideline women. The research will try to identify if it is a matter of law or there are conventions in those countries that the international students come from that forbids women to take the “super courses”. The research will also seek to identify the reason as to why the United States has not been implementing or rather fostering the need for academic equality between the two genders that come from various countries to pursue their goals. How comes women that come to pursue their degrees here are not considered for engineering that will allow them to be at par with their male counter parts.

Reference

Howard, T. (2014). Expanding College access to urban youth. New Jersey: Pearson Inc.

Jamison, A. (2013). International perspective on Engineering Education. New York: Oxford publishers.