Opinion | Think Physics, Think Man: Barrier's to Women's Participation in Physics Education

Autor:	Walton, Eliot Jane
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Physics - Physics Education Physics - Popular Physics Physics - Physics and Society
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	An analysis of barriers to women's participation in physics education is presented. It is expected that in undergraduate physics the most common situation for a women is that she is cisgender and one of a numerical minority in the classroom. The effects of other intersectional identities are not considered. The analysis is based on evidence from the author's lived experience as a transgender woman who transitioned as an undergraduate and on evidence from the literature on the effects of gender differences in academic disciplines. It is expected that the teaching philosophy and practice in physics classrooms favours men over women and these gender dynamics are partially responsible for the under-representation of women in physics. These expectations require further research to be substantiated. Comment: 5 pages, Opinion
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04400 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv