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Challenges encourage the women engineers at the Imagineering Institute to immerse themselves into their work.

primary research concepts and designs
workplace culture that focuses on being
originate from the top. Thus, the engiinclusive and diverse.
neers introduce their creativity only
The institute's workplace virtues and
after a study is designed and collaborathe nature of its enterprise demand coltions are established. Even so, the new
laborative, collective work. The engigraduates are able to develop their selfneers are no stranger to collective work,
esteem amid the institute's culture of
yet their understanding of the merits
learning by doing.
of collaboration was derived mostly
When the young engineers are in
from textbooks. They were propelled
their creating mode, they are
toward collaboration through
enterprising and innovative
the workplace structure.
Most of
and comforted by the idea
Even though they did
of learning by doing.
not initiate it, within a
our engineers
collaborative environThey are engaged, exsee work as a
ment, they are able to
perimentally minded,
stepping-stone to
explore their potential.
and clearly in their
the next level in
However, they diselement within this
their lives, i.e.,
played a distinct lack
milieu. They perceive
of initiative within this
multidisciplinarity as a
marriage.
friendly and accommodatvaluable tool and creator
ing environment. This might
of bridges, yet thinking in
be explained by the following.
multidisciplinary terms is a strugFrom our discussions, we realized that
gle for them to cultivate. Their eduthe structure of the institute's research
cation has not prepared them for the
body is organized in a manner such that
freedom of critical examination. During

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our conversations with them, it was
noticed that they are inclined to build
their arguments only when stimulated
or provoked to cross certain boundaries.
Do our engineers think entrepreneurship is a male-oriented endeavor?
To a large extent, they do not believe
that entrepreneurial ventures are for
men alone, yet some of them did not
hesitate to voice that men are better
suited to be entrepreneurs. Work gives
the young graduates financial independence and a sense of security. But entrepreneurship comes with risks that create
insecurity both financial and personal,
which they believe they are not prepared
to face. Claer Barrett, editor of Financial
Times Money, writes about why women
shy away from investing in the stock
market, concluding that, at some level,
they believe stock investing is for men
because the jargon is better suited for
them (Barrett, 2018).
In a keynote address, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Spivak, 2010) defined



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