Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective

Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective

This paper explores turning points in the historical relationship between gender and technoscience, most notably the gender parity of the 2009 Nobel Prizes; the public debate on the under-representation of women in science that raged world-wide but especially in the US during 2005-2006; and the cons...

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Autor principal: Abir-Am,Pnina Geraldine
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2010
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covert discrimination
gender
history
parity
power relations
public memory
technoscience
women scientists
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420100001000122010-08-11Gender and Technoscience: A Historical PerspectiveAbir-Am,Pnina Geraldine covert discrimination gender history parity power relations public memory technoscience women scientists This paper explores turning points in the historical relationship between gender and technoscience, most notably the gender parity of the 2009 Nobel Prizes; the public debate on the under-representation of women in science that raged world-wide but especially in the US during 2005-2006; and the construction of a public memory for a leading woman technoscientist in the mid-1990s. The paper situates these turning points in the context of historical events, most notably the Scientific Revolution of the 17 th Century, WW2 and the Cold War, the women's liberation movement of the 1970s that legally ended overt gender discrimination, and the rise of covert gender discrimination since the 1990s. It concludes by highlighting the shift toward interactiveness and fluidity in the theoretical conceptions of both gender and technoscience.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.5 n.1 20102010-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242010000100012en10.4067/S0718-27242010000100012
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topic covert discrimination
gender
history
parity
power relations
public memory
technoscience
women scientists
spellingShingle covert discrimination
gender
history
parity
power relations
public memory
technoscience
women scientists
Abir-Am,Pnina Geraldine
Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective
description This paper explores turning points in the historical relationship between gender and technoscience, most notably the gender parity of the 2009 Nobel Prizes; the public debate on the under-representation of women in science that raged world-wide but especially in the US during 2005-2006; and the construction of a public memory for a leading woman technoscientist in the mid-1990s. The paper situates these turning points in the context of historical events, most notably the Scientific Revolution of the 17 th Century, WW2 and the Cold War, the women's liberation movement of the 1970s that legally ended overt gender discrimination, and the rise of covert gender discrimination since the 1990s. It concludes by highlighting the shift toward interactiveness and fluidity in the theoretical conceptions of both gender and technoscience.
author Abir-Am,Pnina Geraldine
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title Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective
title_short Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective
title_full Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective
title_fullStr Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Gender and Technoscience: A Historical Perspective
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publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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