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Gender and Engineering
This book provides a critical and historical perspective on the ways concepts of 'gender' and 'engineering' have been socially constructed and the relationship to the masculinist image of engineering that has endured over time. To alter this situation, the authors in this volume propose that the focus of analyses move from the under-representation of women in engineering to an investigation of the more relational concept of gender and how gender and gender relations are embedded in the entire engineering enterprise. This book is meant for anyone who recognizes the need to rebel against gender norms and binaries if engineering is to realize its potential as a more inclusive and socially transformative project.
The Gender Perspective
The constitutional and legislative framework within the Southern African Development Community provides a positive institutional environment to ensure mainstreaming gender concerns. However, the translation and implementation of the gender perspective is at times lacking. Both agenda setting as an instrument of change management and reorganisation procedures are not used enough in the fields of economy, organisation and health. These three areas are crucial partly due to their interconnectivity and also because of their vital importance to the successful sustainable development of SADC nation. This volume results from the findings of a conference hosted by the Institute of Women and Gender Studies, Kiel, and the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, Pretoria.
Women as Agents of Democratisation
Following a gendered approach, this study presents a descriptive analysis of the role women's organisations have played in the democratisation process in Kenya since the pre-colonial era. Supported by this historical analysis, an indepth study of five political women organisations in Kenya is presented, in which organisations' structure, programs, and strategic approach to political participation presented by the new available spaces after the introduction of a multiparty state in 1992 are illustrated.
Motivation – The Gender Perspective of Young People''s Images of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
The authors discuss individual and societal factors which influence the gender biased image of science, engineering and technology (SET) prevalent in young people. From different angles the authors investigate the consequences of this often unattractive but also partly obsolete image for gendered study and occupational choices of girls and boys. Besides peers, school and media as main influencing socialisation instances the contributions focus on young people’s selfconcept regarding the development of gendered attitudes towards SET. Further this book includes approaches and concepts of inclusion measures aiming on changing the image of SET and attracting young people, and especially girls, for these study and job fields.
Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4)
Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.
The Intersection of Human Capital, Gender and HIV/AIDS in the African Context
"This book is the result of a summer school meeting titled 'Crisis Prevention and Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS Peer Counseling' hosted by Kenyatta University and held in Nakuru, Kenya, from 2nd to 9th May, 2004 ..."--Foreword.
Cracking the Bro Code
Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice. Cracking the Bro Code is a bold ethnographic study of sexism and racism in contemporary computing cultures theorized through the analytical frame of the “Bro Code.” Drawing from feminist anthropology and STS, Coleen Carrigan shares in this book the direct experiences of women, nonbinary individuals, and people of color, including her own experiences in tech, to show that computing has a serious cultural problem. From senior leaders in the field to undergraduates in their fir...
Gender Equality Programmes in Higher Education
Gender equality has been on the agenda of national policies of higher education within and outside the European Union (EU) for the last twenty years. In some European countries, this process was initiated early on and has brought about remarkable results, while in others progress has been slower. Different countries and institutions have focussed on different strategies for raising awareness about the discrimination of women and for increasing the number of women in aca- mia, particularly in leadership positions. Previous research on gender equality in higher education has produced many case studies about programmes at institutions of higher education in Europe and elsewhere. Different actor...
Die Energiewirtschaft ist weiblich ? Warum nicht auch das Personal? Eine branchenspezifische Studie zu Gender Diversity
Aus Frauen und M„nnern bestehende Teams treffen bessere Entscheidungen. Kunden profitieren von den Sichtweisen beider Geschlechter. Unternehmen mit Frauen in der Fhrungsriege erzielen h”here Ergebnisse. Dennoch ist nur ein Viertel der Besch„ftigten in der Energiewirtschaft weiblich. Dieses Buch versteht sich deshalb als Pl„doyer fr Geschlechtervielfalt in einer m„nnerdominierten Branche. Im Ergebnis einer empirischen Studie zeigt es die Barrieren auf, die Frauen den Einstieg in die Energiewirtschaft erschweren und liefert Hinweise, wie Unternehmen diese Barrieren abbauen k”nnen. ?Frauenf”rderung ist kein Etikett zur bloáen Erh”hung der Arbeitgeberattraktivit„t. Sie ist eine Notwendigkeit, weil nur durch differenzierte Sichtweisen und die Nutzung aller verfgbaren Kompetenzen ein Unternehmenswachstum m”glich ist. So haben Energieversorger die Chance, sich in einem volatilen Markt zu behaupten und den steigenden Anforderungen gewachsen zu sein.? Kein Unternehmen kann es sich leisten, auf die H„lfte der Menschheit zu verzichten. Auch nicht die Energieversorger!
