Gender in Science and Technology
Gender in Science and Technology

Author: Waltraud Ernst

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-04-30

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 3839424348

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What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering. Contributions by Anne Balsamo, Wendy Faulkner, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barbara Orland, Els Rommes, and others.

Gender and Science
Gender and Science

Author: Neelam Kumar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Limited

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9789382264972

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Science has been gender biased for centuries across cultural contexts. Different ideological constructions of gender through different eras have restricted women's access to science. The twentieth century, especially its second half, witnessed certain important changes in terms of women's status in society. Gender and Science: Studies across Cultures includes essays by leading academics and researchers from different parts of the world, who discuss gender and science in their society and explore the relevance of gender theories. The book is divided into two broad sections. The first section provides conceptual reflections on gendered science and the second section examines the gender-science relationship using examples from various cultural contexts. This unique volume tries to answer several important questions such as these: Could science become free from gender biases? Could gender and science issues go beyond race, class, colonization and social and geographical distinctions? Are gender and science relations universal as assumed by the 'ethos of science' or vary with the culture? The book also tries to strike a balance between analyses of the gender dimension of science itself and the role of the wider social, economic and cultural factors. This interdisciplinary volume will be an important resource for graduate students and research scholars of gender studies, social history, psychology and sociology. Those interested in gender and science as well as cross-cultural issues will also find this book useful.

Missing Links
Missing Links

Author: United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Gender Working Group

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0889367655

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In this landmark book, the UN-commissioned Gender Working Group outlines its policy proposals for national science and technology programs. Its goal is to ensure that women and men have equal access to and benefit equally from science and technology. The proposals are supported by essays written by distinguished scholars and experts.

Gender and Technology
Gender and Technology

Author: Caroline Sweetman

Publisher: Oxfam

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780855984229

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This collection of articles from Gender and Development considers technologies of many kinds, including those intended to save womens labour, to enable them to control their fertility and to learn and communicate using computer technology.

Gender and Technology
Gender and Technology

Author: Nina Lerman

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003-10-15

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780801872594

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McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.

The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy
The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy

Author: Susan L. Averett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 0190878266

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The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only women but also their partners, children, and indeed nearly every person on the planet. In developed and developing countries alike, women are acquiring more education, marrying later, having fewer children, and spending a far greater amount of their adult lives in the labor force. Yet, because women remain the primary caregivers of children, issues such as work-life balance and the glass ceiling have given rise to critical policy discussions in the developed world. In developing countries, many women lack access to reproductive technology and are often relegated to jobs in the informal sector, where pay is variable and job security is weak. Considerable occupational segregation and stubborn gender pay gaps persist around the world. The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly essays to address these issues using the powerful framework of economics. Each chapter, written by an acknowledged expert or team of experts, reviews the key trends, surveys the relevant economic theory, and summarizes and critiques the empirical research literature. By providing a clear-eyed view of what we know, what we do not know, and what the critical unanswered questions are, this Handbook provides an invaluable and wide-ranging examination of the many changes that have occurred in women's economic lives.

Women, Science, and Technology
Women, Science, and Technology

Author: Mary Wyer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780415926065

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This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.

Inventing Women
Inventing Women

Author: Gill Kirkup

Publisher: Polity

Published: 1992-04-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780745609782

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Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the medicalization of women's bodies and the political issues raised by reproductive technology. The book also examines women as producers of science and technology, both as professional scientists and as unskilled workers. It concludes by looking at women as consumers of technology and science - domestic technology and computers - and at their relationship with Nature. Inventing Women raises the question of whether feminism can produce not only a critique of science and technology, but a new feminist science and technology, and the systems and artefacts that go with it. This volume includes contributions which represent some of the best feminist scholarship in their fields. It can be used as a textbook and it will appeal to a wide audience in feminism and women's studies, sociology, education, science and technology, and medicine and health.

Women, Gender, and Technology
Women, Gender, and Technology

Author: Mary Frank Fox

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2024-02-12

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0252055659

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An interdisciplinary investigation of the co-creation of gender and technology Each of the ten chapters in Women, Gender, and Technology explores a different aspect of how gender and technology work--and are at work--in particular domains, including film narratives, reproductive technologies, information technology, and the profession of engineering. The volume's contributors include representatives of over half a dozen different disciplines, and each provides a novel perspective on the foundational idea that gender and technology co-create one another. Together, their articles provide a window on to the rich and complex issues that arise in the attempt to understand the relationship between these profoundly intertwined notions.

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology

Author: Trauth, Eileen M.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2006-06-30

Total Pages: 1451

ISBN-13: 1591408164

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"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.