Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Saavedra, Luísa
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Araújo, Alexandra Maria Dantas de Castro, Taveira, Maria do Céu, Vieira, Cristina C.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/24256
Resumo: The reason that girls and women withdraw from science and technology education and careers has been a universal concern in the social sciences. This study investigated how gendered constructions of identity are translated into the barriers and fears that female students and professional women experience in decision-making about their careers. We conducted interviews with 63 girls and 39 women in academic and professional engineering careers, focusing on their interpersonal relationships with boys and men in their school and occupational engineering settings, respectively. Participant discourse highlighted the difficulties women face when managing the antagonistic discourses of femininity and masculinity in a social environment in which they are frequently forced to submit to hegemonic masculinity. The consequences of women’s differing discourses about the “masculine world” and the “feminine world” are discussed, and some strategies for creating more equalitarian relational environments in school and work settings are discussed.
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title Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal
spellingShingle Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal
Saavedra, Luísa
Equality/inequality
Identity
Science/engineering
Sex/gender
equality
inequality
science
engineering
sex
gender
Social Sciences
title_short Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal
title_full Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal
title_fullStr Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal
title_sort Dilemmas of girls and women in engineering: a study in Portugal
author Saavedra, Luísa
author_facet Saavedra, Luísa
Araújo, Alexandra Maria Dantas de Castro
Taveira, Maria do Céu
Vieira, Cristina C.
author_role author
author2 Araújo, Alexandra Maria Dantas de Castro
Taveira, Maria do Céu
Vieira, Cristina C.
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author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Saavedra, Luísa
Araújo, Alexandra Maria Dantas de Castro
Taveira, Maria do Céu
Vieira, Cristina C.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Equality/inequality
Identity
Science/engineering
Sex/gender
equality
inequality
science
engineering
sex
gender
Social Sciences
topic Equality/inequality
Identity
Science/engineering
Sex/gender
equality
inequality
science
engineering
sex
gender
Social Sciences
description The reason that girls and women withdraw from science and technology education and careers has been a universal concern in the social sciences. This study investigated how gendered constructions of identity are translated into the barriers and fears that female students and professional women experience in decision-making about their careers. We conducted interviews with 63 girls and 39 women in academic and professional engineering careers, focusing on their interpersonal relationships with boys and men in their school and occupational engineering settings, respectively. Participant discourse highlighted the difficulties women face when managing the antagonistic discourses of femininity and masculinity in a social environment in which they are frequently forced to submit to hegemonic masculinity. The consequences of women’s differing discourses about the “masculine world” and the “feminine world” are discussed, and some strategies for creating more equalitarian relational environments in school and work settings are discussed.
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