Julie Mills, Suzanne Franzway, Judith Gill, Rhonda Sharp

Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Work and Engineering

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the intractable problem of achieving gender equity at work, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135011604
• Artikelnr.: 39191506

Autorenporträt

Julie E. Mills is Professor of Engineering Education and Head of Civil Engineering at the University of South Australia.

Suzanne Franzway is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of South Australia.

Judith Gill is Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at the University of South Australia.

Rhonda Sharp is Adjunct Professor of Economics in the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why So Few Women Engineers? 2. Collaborative Research and Analytic
Strategies 3. Working as a Woman Engineer 4. The Politics of Knowledge and
Ignorance in Workplace Cultures 5. Women Challenging Engineering through
Associations and Networks 6. Campaigns to Challenge Gender and Power in
Engineering 7. Conclusions