Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power - Gender, Work and Engineering

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?

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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?

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Franzway, Franzway Suzanne, Judith Gill, Julie Mills, Julie Franzway Mills, Mills Julie, Rhonda Sharp, Sharp Rhonda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9780415676854
• ISBN: 978-0-415-67685-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Business & Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Gender studies, gender groups, Personnel & human resources management, Economics of industrial organisation, Personnel and human resources management, Economics of industrial organization