Females in science: a contradictory concept?

Autor:	Ruth Watts
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Science instruction Civil rights Perception media_common.quotation_subject Social attitudes Cross-cultural Gender studies Sociology Educational achievement Location Period (music) Education media_common
Zdroj:	Educational Research. 56:126-136
ISSN:	1469-5847 0013-1881
Popis:	Background: the belief that women and science, including mathematics and medicine, are incompatible has had a long and complex history and still often works to exclude women from and/or marginalise them in science.Purpose: this article will seek to explore gender and educational achievement through investigating how such gendered presumptions have persisted at various levels of science, despite perceptions of science itself changing over time and scientific studies expanding, differentiating and becoming professionalized. In particular, after a brief discussion of the historical debates on the provenance and lasting recurrence of gendered assumptions in science, it will try to discover how these prejudices affected the education of girls and women in England from c.1910 to c. 1939 and then, to widen the picture, make some comparison with the USA in the same period, although, necessarily in an article of this length, this analysis will be somewhat cursory. It will then bring the history up-to-date by exami...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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