The two articles use many similar rhetorical tools to reinforce their opinion that work culture is a key reason for the leaving of female engineers. Both articles reference a survey of women who earned engineering degrees conducted by Nadya Fouad to support. They provide some responses from the survey to make for an appeal and utilize statistics as evidence like “For the past two decades, 20 percent of engineering graduates have been women, yet only 11 percent of practicing engineers are women” (Fleur, 2014) to make their words more convincing. Schulte’s article also references the American Association of University report “women make up about 12 percent of engineering professors, one of the lowest percentages in all STEM fields, where women
