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Women and Science: What's the Problem?

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: In recent years the issue of gender and SET (science, engineering, and technology) careers has become prominent in policies and debates in the UK. This paper explores the ways in which equalities solutions pertaining to women and science are locked into a narrow stock of taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of the problem. Drawing on Foucauldian models of the productive nature of discourse, we examine the proliferation of reports and initiatives which frame the issue and critically discuss their institutional consequences including gender audits and gender experts, and the ways in which raising the profile of women in science also involves reinscribing feminine difference.

Source: Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society

DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxp015

Authors: L. Garforth, A. Kerr

Language: English

Topic: Career Development and Diversity

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1987735441

FWCI: 4.374

Cites: 31

Cited by: 35

Related to: 10