Inhalt: "This essay considers the question, Has feminism changed science? After three decades of active research, what new insights, questions, and priorities have feminists-men or women-brought to the sciences? The author provides examples of change from three areas: women's health research, primatology, and archaeology. The essay concludes with a discussion of mainstreaming gender analysis into science." (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Gender Mainstreaming; Feminismus; Frauenforschung; Chancengleichheit; Archäologie; Gesundheitswissenschaft

CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Naturwissenschaft und Technik

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "What are some of the barriers to women's achievement in postsecondary settings, particularly in math and science? How can educators support the development of females to ensure that they reach their potential? Nonintellectual factors may improve the prediction of academic success beyond intellectual dispositions, and yet the typical coed university is still a chilly climate for women. What other issues are occurring in the social context for female students? This article explores the "cycle" of women's experience of learning, focusing on students in an introductory math course and on preservice teachers. Implications for graduate women students are also considered." (author's abstract)|

Schlagwörter:Mathematik; Naturwissenschaft; Chancengleichheit; Karriere; Studentin

CEWS Kategorie:Studium und Studierende, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "This study explores how science and scientists were produced and reproduced within the setting of a university biology department. Building on recent work in the anthropology of education and feminist science studies, the author explored the reflexive questions of whether increased women's representation in science changed science practice and whether changing science practice increased women's representation insolence. The author examined both the contextual and constitutive values of science as they were negotiated and played out in the training of scientists in this setting. The author found some ways in which these values were shifting as more women assumed places of leadership in the department. At the same time, the author identified other ways in which the presence of women did not seem to cause the types of changes that feminist science studies have hypothesized. These findings can be interpreted through the anthropological perspective of practice theory, in which individuals are seen as exerting agency both within and against institutional structures." (author's abstract)|

Schlagwörter:Biologie; Feminismus; Quantität; Evaluation

CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "There is a tremendous shortage of information technology (IT) talent in the United States today. Reports suggest that the demand for such talent will continue to increase. Despite the need for qualified personnel, women are underrepresented in this field. Those entering the profession often leave. This article discusses possible sociological factors influencing the number of women entering a career in information technology and their advancements to management positions. The relationship of these variables with perceptions of organizational justice in career advancement is considered. Members of Systers, an on-line forum for women in technology, were surveyed and the results are presented." (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Chancengleichheit; USA; Nachwuchsförderung; Informationstechnik; Karriere; soziokulturelle Faktoren; Nordamerika; Quantität

CEWS Kategorie:Arbeitswelt und Arbeitsmarkt, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Naturwissenschaft und Technik

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "This study examines the effects of gender, race, and ethnicity on the pursuit of scientific fields of study among college students. It builds on previous research by considering variation among fields of science and variation across institutions in selectivity. The findings reveal that African American students graduating with degrees in science are underrepresented in elite institutions, principally because of their concentration in historically Black colleges and universities. The evidence does not indicate that female science majors are underrepresented in elite institutions. Both groups are concentrated among the science fields with the lowest labor market returns. These findings demonstrate that female and minority students are more disadvantaged than studies of their simple representation in science would suggest." (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:USA; Student; Studentin; Geschlechterforschung; empirische Forschung; College; Ethnizität; Diskriminierung; Nordamerika

CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "This article argues that the objections raised by Koertge (1998), Gross and Levitt (1994), and Weinberg (1996) against feminist scholarship on gender and physics are unwarranted. The objections are that feminist science studies perpetuate gender stereotypes, are irrelevant to the content of physics, or promote epistemic relativism. In the first part of this article I argue that the concept of gender, as it has been developed in feminist theory, is a key to understanding why the first objection is misguided. Instead of reinforcing gender stereotypes, feminist science studies scholars can formulate empirically testable hypotheses regarding local and contested beliefs about gender. In the second part of this article I argue that a social analysis of scientific knowledge is a key to understanding why the second and the third objections are misguided. The concept of gender is relevant for understanding the social practice of physics, and the social practice of physics can be of epistemic importance. Instead of advancing epistemic relativism, feminist science studies scholars can make important contributions to a subfield of philosophy called social epistemology." (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Physik; Feminismus; Geschlechterforschung; Quantität; empirische Forschung

CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Naturwissenschaft und Technik

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "Spatial visualization skills have been shown to be important to success in engineering and other technical fields. Unfortunately, the 3-D spatial skills of women often lag behind those of men. At Michigan Technological University, a special course designed to enhance 3-D spatial skills has been offered for several years. Development and improvements to this course have been supported by the National Science Foundation through a series of grants. This article outlines the efforts at improving spatial skills undertaken at Michigan Tech since 1993 and presents results from this project as they relate to the retention and overall success of female engineering students." (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Ingenieurwissenschaft; Quantität; Forschungsprojekt; Geschlechterforschung

CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "Questionnaire data (n=496) were used to examine the relationship between perceived gender interaction in the classroom and course confidence for undergraduate science, mathematics, and technology majors. Compared with male majors, female majors reported significantly lower course confidence, recognition by and respect from instructors, respect for female students from male peers, and confidence that course curricula were gender-inclusive. Recognition by and respect from instructors explained 32% of the variation in course confidence for female majors with female instructors; respect from instructors explained 11% and 23% of the variation in course confidence for female majors with male instructors and male majors with female instructors, respectively, and instructor respect and academic achievement explained 26% of the variation in course confidence for male majors with male instructors. Pedagogical implications are discussed." (author's abstract)|

Schlagwörter:Geschlechterforschung; Naturwissenschaft; Mathematik

CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "The article discusses problems women academic scientists in India face because of gender; women scientists are aware of how their position in the academy is different from that of men but have not made efforts to address their problems collectively; states that these women have a feminist perspective of a kind but have been disassociated from the women's movement in India." (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Indien; Feminismus; Diskriminierung; Beruf; Gleichberechtigung; Akademikerin; Südasien; Entwicklungsland; Asien

CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz