Doing gender in engineering workplace cultures. II. Gender in/authenticity and the in/visibility paradox

Autor:	Wendy Faulkner
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Doing gender History and Philosophy of Science Invisibility media_common.quotation_subject Visibility (geometry) General Engineering Gender studies Sociology Femininity Social psychology Cumulative effect Education media_common
Zdroj:	Engineering Studies. 1:169-189
ISSN:	1940-8374 1937-8629
Popis:	Part I of this paper (in Volume 1, Issue 1) presented fieldwork observations about everyday interactions in engineering workplace cultures, which tend to make it easier for men than for women to build working relationships and to ‘belong’ in engineering. This second part extends the analysis, by examining the ‘in/visibility paradox’ whereby women engineers are simultaneously highly visible as women yet invisible as engineers. This paradox is a key to understanding how women engineers experience engineering workplace cultures, and a major factor underlying the poor retention and progression of women in engineering. Women engineers' invisibility as engineers is evident in the greater effort required of them to be taken seriously as ‘real engineers’ and the undermining of confidence which can ensue. Their visibility as women brings contradictory pressures – to be ‘one of the lads’ but at the same time ‘not lose their femininity’. These in/visibility dynamics have a significant cumulative effect, not least be...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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