Lecture: Gender Studies in Engineering

The lecture gives an overview about the categories “sex” and “gender” focussing on science and technology.

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, with provided 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

In detail

1. Introduction
2. Gender theory: positions, definitions, and debates
3. Feminist critique on science and technology: approaches, methods, and main questions
4. Women in Science and Technology 1: contributions of women to science and technology historical point of view
5. Women in Science and Technology 2: contributions of women to science and technology nowadays
6. Technology and construction of masculinity: corporate culture, “the engineer”
7. Gender and methods: common methods of mobility and travel surveys
8. Gender and planning processes: mission statements, participation, practise
9. Gender aspects in product development: consumption items, household appliance, and automotive industry
10. Representation of SET (Science, Engineering and Technology)
11. Gender politics and perspectives: Managing Gender and Diversity / Anti-discrimination
12. Gender and sustainable development
13. Gender perspectives and dimensions in SET (Science, Engineering and Technology)

Further information is available in German or please contact: office@b-nk.at.