商品簡介
Gendered innovations in science and engineering are "transformations in the personnel, cultures, and content of science and engineering brought about by efforts to remove gender bias" in the words of Schiebinger (history of science, Stanford U.) and is geared towards increasing the participation of women in science and engineering, fixing institutional cultures, and enhancing human knowledge. She presents eight studies exploring efforts to remove gender bias and their results in the fields of sex determination genetics, archaeology, human fossil reconstruction, the terrestrial sciences, geographic information systems, stem cell research, automobile engineering, and astrophysics. Three additional papers discuss the recruitment of women faculty in science and engineering, institutional policies at the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health designed to encourage gendered analysis, and project of the National Academies on women in science and engineering. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Her books include The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (1989), Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999), and, most recently, the prize-winning Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004).