A-16/20 It’s Not Just Counting the Women: Gender Diversity and Systems Engineering

With an increasing focus on women in systems engineering at INCOSE, through groups such as Empowering Women Leaders in Systems Engineering (EWLSE), and the desire to develop policy to increase gender diversity, it is important to: (1) conceptually understand what gender diversity means in a systems engineering context and (2) gain a deeper understanding of the value increased gender diversity has for systems engineering. Using a social science perspective together with engineering ethics, in this paper, we conceptually outline what gender diversity is in a systems engineering context. We discuss the value this could have for engineering products and the social systems in which they are embedded. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2020.00822.x