What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on
研究英国FTSE 100公司中女性工程师如何解释自己留在男性主导的工程领域的原因，归纳出四种帮助形式，并提出促进支持性工作关系的人力资源实践。
Abstract We have considerable understanding of the obstacles that women engineers encounter and the reasons that they leave the field, but we know less about what enables them to remain. Adopting an interpretivist approach, this article examines how a group of British women engineers in two FTSE 100 companies account for “staying on” in their male‐dominated work settings. We delineate four specific forms of help that facilitate women's retention in the field. We argue that exposure to help leads to women developing a habitus that enables them to continue working in engineering. To conclude, we draw on our findings to outline HR practices that will facilitate supportive relationships in the workplace and pave the way towards developing more positive organisational climates.