Article ID: CBB637624794

Gender (2019)

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Despite recent gains in the numbers of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, pressing concerns about gender in the modern sciences remain. These concerns are intertwined with the role gender has historically played in the practice of science. Research in this field takes up two broad and overlapping sets of questions. First, historians have explored who scientists were (often referred to as the “women in science” problem). Second, historians have examined how gender as a system of ideas, ideologies, and practices has informed the culture and content of science. Scholarship in gender studies of science comes from a variety of disciplines, including women and gender history, the history of science, technology, and medicine, science and technology studies, feminist studies, and the philosophy of science. The earliest literature sought to recover women from the historical record as scientific practitioners and to make their intellectual contributions visible to modern readers. More recent scholarship revisits these questions with attention to how scientific practitioners have been marked by gender as well as by race, class, sexuality, and disability. Similarly, foundational inquiries into how traditional gender stereotypes structure research frameworks are being revised to include more robust analyses of how intersectional forms of difference influence knowledge production. As in many historical fields, gender is understood as impossible to separate from other analytical frames; nevertheless, attending to histories of gender in science reveals how gender has framed not just participation in science, but the construction of the field itself. (from the article)

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Authors & Contributors
Leng, Kirsten
Bhattacharya, Tithi
Pinto, Sarah Ann
Cipolla, Cyd
Gupta, Kristina
Saini, Angela
Concepts
Feminism
Science and gender
Women in science
Sexuality
Gender
Science studies, theoretical works
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
France
India
Bengal (India)
Great Britain
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