Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 8 (2002) No. 3-4, S. 363-375
Inhalt: "The current situation of women in scientific education and employment in European Union and applicant countries shows patterns of vertical and horizontal segregation. Yet the data that underpin these analyses are patchy, and despite some efforts to reuse available data, there is a clear need for new data, an effort that is gathering momentum in the European Commission (EC) and other pan-European bodies. However, new data collection requires major resourcing and for this to happen, various actors need to be convinced that the 'women and science problem' matters. Various arguments can be found in the literature about why the issue is seen to matter, and here, the author focuses particularly on a recent rationale in the EC, the 'science and society' perspective. However, if women, as agents, persist in retreating from science, the reasons behind the phenomena shown up in the available data need to be much more closely examined, in terms of the structures and institutions of scientific education and employment." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Arbeitswelt und Arbeitsmarkt, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Statistik und statistische Daten
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Laboratory talk and women's retention rates in science
Autor/in:
Conefrey, Theresa
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 6 (2000) No. 3, S. 251-264
Inhalt: "Despite initiatives designed to increase women's participation in science, their
attrition rates remain high. To improve women's retention rates, this article proposes
a closer examination of the culture of science to discover what it is about it that
women might find uncomfortable, that could create a 'chilly climate' for them. A 2-year
ethnographic study of a university research laboratory group was conducted that identified
the group's communication style as problematic for some female members. A weekly meeting
was selected that exemplifies several of the dynamics of the communication style that
women at this laboratory had found problematic. An analysis of this meeting identified
specific features of the talk and examined research findings from the fields of language
and gender research and laboratory studies to explain why women might find these features
problematic." (author's abstract)|
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Barriers and constraints : women physicists' perceptions of career progress
Autor/in:
Hodgson, Barbara; Scanlon, Eileen; Whitelegg, Elizabeth
Quelle: Physics education, Vol. 35 (2000) No. 6, S. 454-459
Inhalt: "Researchers in the area of women in science are trying to understand how the participation of women in science can be increased and also what prevents women from developing scientific careers. Past influential work supports the importance of taking the perspective of women's education and career paths as a whole, emphasizing the importance of structural and social factors in career progress. This paper reports some outcomes from an interview study with women PhD physicists working in a variety of science-related careers. Our aim is to explore and document the career experience of women scientists and to identify barriers and constraints to women's participation in science careers and to investigate ways in which educational experiences contribute to career progress." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Frauen und Naturwissenschaften : in den meisten EU-Staaten ist immer noch sehr wenig Raum für Frauen in wissenschaftlichen
Spitzenpositionen
Autor/in:
Osborn, Mary
Quelle: Frauen und Wissenschaft : Konferenzbericht, Brüssel, 28.-29. April 1998. Konferenz "Frauen und Wissenschaft"; Amt für amtliche Veröffentlichungen der Europäischen Gemeinschaften, 1999, S. 89-118
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
The myth of meritocracy and delusions of equity : cultural impediments to diversity in natural science programs
Autor/in:
Jones, Leslie S.
Quelle: San Diego, 1998. 12 S.
Inhalt: "In an effort to determine why there is continued scarcity of all women and of men
of color in the sciences, this study turns the lens of the social sciences onto social
aspects of the sciences. Interviews with academic science faculty examined gender
and racial/ethnic issues in the professional domain of a variety of scientists for
clues as to how the culture of science might influence demographic participation in
science programs. As a study of culture with an explicitly sociopolitical agenda,
this study adheres most closely to the traditions of Critical Ethnography. Interviews
were conducted with 34 practicing scientists sampled demographically across science
and applied science fields with respect to sex and racial/ ethnic background. The
interviewees were half female, half male, half Caucasian, and half people of color
(from several ethnic groups). Results indicate that the scientific method and its
associated worldview are the most readily identifiable source of the problem of minority
representation in the sciences. Scientists believe they can remove subjectivity from
their treatment of people, because they are convinced they can do this in their empirical
work. Responses, however, in interviews indicate that people in the sciences are not
treated equally or equitably." (author's abstract)|
Quelle: Verein Feministische Wissenschaft; Tagung "Frauen in den Naturwissenschaften"; Zürich: eFeF-Verl. (Schriftenreihe / Verein Feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz), 1991. 159 S.
Inhalt: "Das naturwissenschaftliche Denken ist für unsere Kultur grundlegend, da es mit seiner Methodik, seinen Konzeptionen, seinem Anspruch auf Objektivität, Wertfreiheit und Universalität bestimmt, was Realität, was Wahrheit ist. Selbstverständlicher Ausgangspunkt dafür bildet seit je ein männlicher Lebenszusammenhang und eine ausschließlich männliche Sicht. In den hier dokumentierten Beiträgen zur Tagung 'Im Widerstreit mit der Ojektivität' thematisieren Naturwissenschaftler ihr Unbehagen im Wissenschaftsbetrieb, die offene und versteckte Diskriminierung der Frauen in Beruf und Gesellschaft. Sie kritisieren die Fehlleistungen, die Inhalte und Methoden der modernen Naturwissenschaft und setzen sie in Beziehung zu unserer patriarchalischen Kultur." (Autorenreferat)