Academic Journal
Gender Segregation in the Borderlands of E-Science
| Τίτλος: | Gender Segregation in the Borderlands of E-Science |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Karakas, Oznur, Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957 |
| Πηγή: | Science & Technology Studies. 37(3):2-24 |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FTS), Interdisciplinary Collaboration, E-Infrastructure, Interdisciplinarity, Gendered Asymmetries |
| Περιγραφή: | This article draws on an ethnographic study of an e-science platform in Sweden to analyse how horizontal gender segregation across sciences plays out in e-science, a borderland in which sciences converge around state-of-the art computational technologies for scientific research. While the convergence of sciences in e-science has the potential to open a non-traditional trajectory to attract women to ICTs, we find that this potential remains untapped. Instead horizontal gender segregation is perpetuated through a) restricted mobility of women from scientific fields with higher gender parity to IT, b) gender friction negatively affecting women in cross-disciplinary e-science, c) a gendered developer/user divide permeating e-science collaborations under 'the logic of domains,' and d) perceived self-reliance in computational tool development across sciences acting as 'gendered boundary work' to strengthen the gendered hard/soft divide in sciences. |
| Περιγραφή αρχείου: | electronic |
| Σύνδεσμος πρόσβασης: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-539903 https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.122528 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | SwePub |
| ISSN: | 22434690 |
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| DOI: | 10.23987/sts.122528 |