Gendering Science: Women and Men Producing Knowledge

Calls for interest

During the last two centuries, the access of women to higher education has become much easier in most developed countries. At the same time the significant transformations in science and technology have also affected the participation of women in the scientific enterprise as knowledge producers, science managers, and educators. Especially in the last three decades, given the changes in our perception of the role of science and technology in society, scholars have explored different sites of knowledge production and have highlighted the changing roles of both men and women in the sciences.

The task of the conference is to map the historical path of women from equal opportunities in education to the position of knowledge producers, science managers and educators in the light of the gendered transformations of the sciences in the 20th and 21st centuries. We would like to explore especially the following themes preferably from a historical perspective:

Paths of women to equal opportunities in education and tenure track jobs in different cultural and political environments.
Differences in the position of female and male scientists in cooperative research teams and patterns of collaboration.
Outstanding women scientists and engineers: authors of scientific discoveries and technical inventions; team-leaders; scientific managers.  
Transformations in science and society and gendered effects in knowledge production.
Changes in science and society that reshaped the academia, working cultures and career paths of both men and women
Ways that the globalization of the scientific knowledge production affected women’s claims to knowledge in various parts of the world
Opportunities and risks in science, technology and society in terms of producing gender sensitive knowledge.

The abstract must not exceed 500 words. Full papers 5 000 words.