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oportion of female engineers working at the in the Libyan oil and gas companies had reached 71% of the total graduates from Libyan universities, while 19 percent preferred to leave oil sector and they engage in the education sector.

He also illustrate that all this percentage is working in the company's offices which mainly located in Benghazi and Tripoli the main capital cities in Libya. This surplus in the number of female engineers lacking basic experiences and low in competence has led to neglect them in direct or indirect way, moreover they became unreliable even to do the simple tasks. Soltan (2008) argues that the cost of training engineers at college is very high. Therefore if the female engineers are underused or lost to the workforce, this represents a financial lost to the nation.

However the management type which can be classified as Telling style which mean high directive and low supportive style this kind of managers with high amount of task behaviour, telling subordinates what, when, and how to do it with minimal support relationship behaviour (Northouse, 2007). This style of management contributed effectively to isolate and ignore the female engineers.

The present study is based on main two questions which are: What are main difficulties that the Libyan female faced in petroleum engineering sector? And how advantages can be taken of this wasted workforce? This question branches into several other questions as follows:

Petroleum engineering does it suitable for females in general according to their physical and mental body structure?

Dose Libyan society accept women to be working on desert isolated petroleum fields? What are the effects on the female social life?

Why females in Libya chose to study Petroleum engineering? Do they know the consequences of this diction on their future?

The purpose of the proposed study is:

Focus on the main difficulties that the Libyan female faced in petroleum engineering industry.

Find out the reasons why Libyan females choose to study Petroleum engineering?

Find out solutions for these difficulties and an attempt to find a way to take advantage of female petroleum engineers.

Research Design

A survey study will be conducted aiming to achieve the objectives of the study. Quantitative data will be collected through online questionnaires for a sample of Libyan female engineers and individual online interviews for some Libyan oil companies' managers and supervisors.

Online questionnaires and interviews are have several advantages such as: instant communications access worldwide, acceptable to those reluctant to participate in face to face interview, extremely economical on time, response is at interviewee's convenience and finally no transcription required. For all these reasons and the researcher decided to conduct online researches and also because the respondents live far away from the researcher.

Population and Sample

The research in this study will set in Tripoli city, in the north of Libya. In Tripoli, there are a huge number of petroleum companies, including Libyan and multinational companies.

A wide sample from female petroleum engineering will be taken to find out their own opinion and also from petroleum companies managers and supe