This was the second questionnaire that examined the main factors of belonging, authenticity, satisfaction, and cultural wellbeing. We also added a new factor – support – based on analysis of earlier data. A reminder that we care about these factors because they could impact who stays in the engineering and technology sectors.

• Sense of Belonging: Includes overall sense of belonging, social connections, and emotional connections in someone’s current workplace or place of study.
• Authenticity: Includes three sub-factors of authentic living (being true to self), self-connection (knowing who one is), and external influence (resisting influence from others).
• Satisfaction: Includes current job satisfaction or satisfaction with their place of study and overall career satisfaction.
• Cultural Wellbeing: Includes feelings of safety, empowerment, enjoyment, and satisfaction with your organisation’s understanding of one’s identity.
• (NEW) Support: Includes the amount of advice, feedback, and assistance you get from your coworkers and supervisors.

A summary of the means for each factor or sub-factor are shown below. The orange dots show the mean response on this questionnaire, while the black stars show the mean responses from the previous questionnaire. While the means have not changed significantly overall, we are seeing more negative changes for certain demographic groups, indicating some potential areas where organisations can take action to improve equity and inclusion. For example, while job satisfaction stayed stable for men and women, it dropped significantly for non-binary participants. Our analysis is underway and we plan to invite some participants for interviews to dig deeper into the statistical trends. We will share more detailed results as they become available along with recommendations for industry based on our findings.

Mean Scores for Factors
For each of the scores, the range is 1 to 5, where 1 is low and 5 is high (e.g. 5 indicates the highest sense of belonging).

Acknowledgements: Many thanks to all of the ENGclusion participants for their time and commitment to our study and to our funders for supporting this research.