Phenomenal Voyage: Women Engineering the Future

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The demand for scientists and engineers in the technology-driven global economy is ever increasing. While women constitute 46 percent of the work force in the US, they comprise only 23 percent of the nation's scientists and engineers.

Phenomenal Voyage: Women Engineering the Future examines the role women play in technological development. It also explores what is needed to overcome the barriers that prevent teenage girls from excelling in math and science.

Featured are: Astronaut and engineer, Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, who has traveled through space five times; Kelly Rankin, coastal engineer; Kyra Sedransk and Kristina Demas, two talented high school students from the Hathaway Brown School's Student Research Program.

Phenomenal Voyage: Women Engineering the Future is a production of Creative Expansions, Inc., presented by KCTS/Seattle Public Television and distributed by American Public Television. Helene Lerner, Executive Producer and Host. Marilyn Kaskel and Suzanne Mitchell, Senior Producers. Natalie Reuss, Producer. Mauro Brattoli and Bill Mills, Directors of Photography. Rosemary McGuire, Editor.

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