Quelle: Zeitschrift für Frauenforschung und Geschlechterstudien, Jg. 25 (2007) H. 2, S. 27-43
Inhalt: Der Beitrag geht auf das Projekt "Creating Cultures for Success for Women Engineers" zurück und thematisiert methodologische Probleme, wie sie bei groß angelegten internationalen Vergleichsstudien auftreten: den Umgang mit kulturellen und sprachlichen Problemen; methodologische Fragen des Vergleichs eines variablenorientierten und eines fallstudienorientierten Ansatzes; Standardprobleme des Forschungsdesigns in den Sozialwissenschaften, vor allem in Bezug auf die Entscheidung für ein quantitatives, qualitatives oder gemischtes Design; Umgang mit großen Datenmengen; Probleme der quantitativen Erhebung - Fragebogenkonstruktion, Validität und Reliabilität, Probleme bei der Durchführung; Probleme der qualitativen Erhebung - Leitfäden für Interview, Fokusgruppendiskussion, Beobachtung, Websiteanalyse; Probleme der Feldarbeit und der Datenanalyse. Eine interative länderübergreifende kombinierte Methodologie erlaubt jedoch einen Vergleich, der bei allen Begrenzungen weit über die gewöhnlichen statistischen Vergleichsmethoden hinaus fruchtbar ist. (ICE2)
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Geschlechterverhältnis, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Unter Trickstern und Kojoten : was "Geschlecht" in Umweltforschung und -planung leistet
Titelübersetzung:Among tricksters and coyotes : what "gender" achieves in environmental research and planning
Autor/in:
Hofmeister, Sabine
Quelle: Forum Wissenschaft, Jg. 24 (2007) Nr. 4, S. 19-22
Inhalt: "Wo Um- und Mitwelt der Menschen analysiert werden, geht es nicht zuletzt um 'Natur'. Naturwissenschaftliches ist da nicht fern; und das hat eine lange Tradition im geschlechterblinden Hinsehen auf seine Gegenstände. Sabine Hofmeister legt den Finger auf entsprechende Defizite und lotst durch Voraussetzungen eines feministischen Theoriezugangs zu ökologisch orientierter Umwelt-und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung." (Autorenreferat)
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Gender and satisfaction with the cooperative education experience in engineering
Autor/in:
Wilkinson, Karen R.; Sullivan, Laura L.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 9 (2003) No. 3-4
Inhalt: "This study investigated gender differences in job satisfaction following the first
term of a cooperative education program in engineering. Using data from a survey of
freshmen, this study tested hypotheses about gender differences in the co-op job experience
and the correlates of co-op job satisfaction. Gender-based predictive models of job
satisfaction are presented. In general, the correlates of co-op job satisfaction are
the same as those identified in past studies of job satisfaction. The level of co-op
job satisfaction is the same for men and women, even though women do face some disadvantages.
Social influences are important to both men and women, but there are gender differences
in the specific predictors." (author's abstract)|
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The effect of World War II on women in engineering
Autor/in:
Barker, Anne M.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 9 (2003) No. 3-4
Inhalt: "The field of engineering has been one of the most difficult for women to enter. Even
with an increase in the proportion of women in the engineering workforce from 0.3%
before the 1970s to 9.5% in 1999, women are still seriously underrepresented. This
article examines the history of women in engineering in the United States during World
War II. Women were actively recruited as engineering aides by the federal government,
which saw them as a temporary substitute for men who were in the military. Yet this
crisis did not break down the barriers to and prejudices against women in engineering,
nor did it give them a real opportunity to become professional engineers equal to
men. After the war, calls for a return to normalcy were used to reestablish social
norms, which kept women at home and reserved desirable places in the workforce, including
in engineering, for men." (author's abstract)|
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The gender and science digital library : affecting student achievement in science
Autor/in:
Nair, Sarita
Quelle: Knowledge quest : journal of the American Association of School Librarians, Vol. 31 (2003) No. 3, S. 28-29
Inhalt: Describes the Gender and Science Digital Library (GSDL), an online collection of high-quality, interactive science resources that are gender-fair, inclusive, and engaging to students. Considers use by teachers and school library media specialists to encourage girls to enter careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Studium und Studierende
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Wozu 'Gender Studies'? : Geschlechtsdifferenzierungsforschung zwischen politischem Populismus und naturwissenschaftlicher Konkurrenz
Titelübersetzung:Why gender studies? : sex differentiation research between political populism and scientific competition
Autor/in:
Hirschauer, Stefan
Quelle: Soziale Welt : Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, Jg. 54 (2003) H. 4, S. 461-482
Inhalt: Der vorliegende Diskussionsbeitrag zur Positionierung der Gender Studies befasst sich mit dem Problem ihrer transdisziplinären Einheit sowie mit ihren Zielsetzungen und Fragestellungen. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Gender Studies eine folgenreiche Verschiebung innerhalb der drei zentralen Themen vornehmen, denen sich die Geschlechterforschung in den Kulturwissenschaften auf unterschiedliche Weise widmet: dem Thema der Ungleichheit, der Komplementarität und der Differenz. Gender Studies konstituieren sich nach der These des Autors dort, wo die Kategorie "Geschlecht" von einem analytischen Instrument der Forschung zu ihrem zentralen Problem wird. Der Autor diskutiert zunächst die politische Rahmung der Geschlechterforschung, welche diese zu "gendered studies" macht und zahlreiche Folgeprobleme für die Forschung aufwirft. Er formuliert anschließend einen enger gefassten Begriff von Gender Studies, der von drei Grenzphänomenen ausgeht: den Anomalien der Geschlechtsklassifikation, der Gender Indifferenz und den Sex Studies. Er betrachtet dabei die Gender Studies als eine Differenzierungsforschung, deren Zielsetzung in Konkurrenz zu den Naturwissenschaften und in Abarbeitung eines spezifischen historischen Erbes verstanden werden muss. Er diskutiert vor diesem Hintergrund die Bedeutung der Gender Studies für die disziplinäre Organisation der Wissenschaften und für das Verhältnis zur Geschlechterpolitik. (ICI2)
Inhalt: "For many, 'Gender Studies' has become a label for a huge field, comprising women's studies, men's studies and all investigations into their differences and relations. Understood in that way 'gender studies' would be the name of any science that regards human beings under the aspect of their sex. The article pleads for a more specific notion of gender studies as an enterprise investigating the distinction between the Sexes instead of using the distinction for research (like women's and men's studies do). Gender studies in this sense get its contour through dealing with three 'margins' of gender: 1. those gender trouble makers which gave rise to the category of 'gender' in clinical research in the 60s, and who are still vital resources for theoretical innovation in the humanities; 2. the phenomenon of gender indifference which has to be taken seriously both as feature of modern societies and as a clue to understanding sexual discrimination as an unexpected re-enactment of gender; 3. the contributions of 'sex studies' in the life-sciences which have to be observed by gender studies in a science studies manner, and which have to be taken seriously as intellectual competitors, not opponents. In sum, gender studies should be regarded as 'social studies of sexual difference' aiming at a culturalist decomposition of the reifications 'man' and 'woman'." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Women and the crossroads of science : thoughts on policy, research, and evaluation
Autor/in:
Dietz, James S.; Anderson, Bernice; Katzenmeyer, Conrad
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 8 (2002) No. 3-4, S. 395-408
Inhalt: "In this essay, the authors examine the crosscutting themes of this special issue as they pertain to policy, research, and evaluation of women and science. Past and current research, theory, frameworks, and programs are discussed in the context of challenges and innovations for methods and policy. The authors assert that the crossroads for gender equity studies lies at the intersection of science and society and argue for the need to build a base of cumulative knowledge for policy and practice." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Taking stock: where we've been, where we are, where we're going
Autor/in:
Chu Clewell, Betriz; Campbell, Patricia B.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 8 (2002) No. 3-4, S. 255-284
Inhalt: "Focusing on 'where we've been, where we are, and where we're going,' the authors examine minority women's and white women's progress in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) over the past decade. Starting from an exploration of participation and achievement data, the authors move on to cover the theories behind SMET gender differences, including those based on testing, biology, social-psychology, and cognitive sciences. Looking at practice as well as theory, the authors explore the impacts that interventions and contextual influences, such as societal change and education reform, have had on efforts to achieve gender parity in SMET. The article concludes with the recommendation of logical next steps to preserve and expand the gains made by women in these fields." (author's abstract)
Gender attributions of science and academic attributes : an examination of undergraduate science, mathematics and technology majors
Autor/in:
Hughes, W. Jay
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 8 (2002) No. 1, S. 53-65
Inhalt: "Questionnaire data (n=297) examined the relationship between gender attributions of science and academic attributes for undergraduate science, mathematics, and technology majors from the perspective of gender schema theory. Female and male respondents perceived that (a) the role of scientist was sex typed as masculine, (b) their majors were more valuable for members of their gender than for those of the opposite gender, (c) their majors were more valuable for themselves than for members of their gender in general. Androgynous attributions of scientists and the value of one's major for women predicted value for oneself, major confidence, and career confidence, and masculine attributions of scientists predicted class participation for female respondents. Feminine attributions of scientists predicted graduate school intent; value for women predicted major confidence and subjective achievement, and value for men predicted value for oneself, course confidence, and career confidence for male respondents." (author's abstract)