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Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power.

Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mills, Julie E.
Otros Autores: Franzway, Suzanne, Gill, Judith, Sharp, Rhonda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Why so few women engineers?; 2 Collaborative research and analytic strategies; 3 Working as a woman engineer; 4 The politics of knowledge and ignorance in workplace cultures; 5 Women challenging engineering through associations and networks; 6 Campaigns to challenge gender and power in engineering; 7 Conclusions; Appendix A: questionnaire for the National Survey 2; Appendix B: interview schedule used for the Career Study.
  • Appendix C: questionnaire for the survey component of theWorkplace StudyAppendix D: interview schedule used for the Workplace Study; Appendix E: interview schedule used for the Campaign Study; References; Index.