The lecture points out the following three perspectives: · "Women in Science and Technology": structural and symbolic barriers for women in the field of science and technology, answers and strategies · "Science and Technology of Gender": analysis of the social, historical, political and cultural processes of doing gender in technological artefacts · "Gender in Science and Technology": analysis of the critical role of gender in the exchange between science and society, in developing theories, methods, interpretation of results
Agenda
- Introduction Gender theory: positions, definitions, and debates
- Feminist critique on science and technology: approaches, methods, and main questions
- Women in Science and Technology 1 - contributions of women to science and technology - historical point of view
- Women in Science and Technology 2 - contributions of women to science and technology - nowadays
- Technology and construction of masculinity: corporate culture, "the engineer"
- Gender and methodology: common methods of mobility and travel surveys
- Gender and planning processes: mission statements, participation, practise
- Gender aspects in product development: consumption items, household appliance, and automotive industry
- Representation of SET (Science, Engineering and Technology)
- Gender and sustainable development
- Gender politics and perspectives: Managing Gender and Diversity / Antidiscriminiation
- Gender perspectives in SET (Science, Engineering and Technology)
Die Lehrveranstaltung ist als Einführung gedacht und setzt keine spezifischen Kenntnisse voraus. Die Vorlesung ist interdisziplinär angelegt, daher offen für alle Studienrichtungen; empfohlen insbesondere für diejenigen der ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Fakultäten.
