Discusses the ambivalent role of technology in efforts to better the lives of women around the world, addressing the ways in which new technologies geared toward economic development often bypass or even harm women.
Discusses the gendered iconography of Enlightenment scientific discourse, examining the competing virile and feminine regimes of symbolism and how they represented the tension between science as a male domain of reason and a female domain of nature. …
Discusses a study which sought to identify the sources of sex and race imbalance in the scientific and technical fields, using a questionnaire to understand how vocational stereotypes and sex-roles are transmitted through the education. Argues that…
The Survey Sample
Response to the Survey
Weighting the Gender-and-Specialty Strata
A Note on Statistical Significance and Confidence Levels
- Gender
- Ethnicity
-…
Introduces the society, lists the cities where is maintains sections, lists its corporate members, and lists the awards, certificates, and scholarship programs it administers.
Discusses the opportunities available to women in engineering. Describes some of the work, and encourages young women to begin planning for a career in the field while still in high school.