Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering (Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics)

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. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in attracting and retaining women in engineering.  This book analyses the outcomes of a decade-long investigation into this phenomenon, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change? The study includes data from two major surveys, accounts from female engineers in a range of locations and engineering fields, and case studies of three large engineering corporations. The authors explore the history and politics of several organisations related to women in engineering, and conclude with an analysis of a range of campaigns that have been waged to address the issue of women’s minority status in engineering.  Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power will be of great interest to students of feminist economics, and is also relevant to researchers in women’s studies and engineering education.

Business & Money

Mills, Julie

Franzway, Suzanne

Gill, Judith

Sharp, Rhonda

Economics

Routledge

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. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in attracting and retaining women in engineering. This book analyses the outcomes of a decade-long investigation into this phenomenon, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change? The study includes data from two major surveys, accounts from female engineers in a range of locations and engineering fields, and case studies of three large engineering corporations. The authors explore the history and politics of several organisations related to women in engineering, and conclude with an analysis of a range of campaigns that have been waged to address the issue of women’s minority status in engineering. Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power will be of great interest to students of feminist economics, and is also relevant to researchers in women’s studies and engineering education.

Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not attracted, supported or retained female students and identifies the issues needing to be addressed in changing engineering education to become more gender inclusive. This innovative and much-needed work also addresses how faculty can incorporate inclusive curriculum within their courses and programs, and provides a range of exemplars of good practice in gender inclusive engineering education that will be immediately useful to faculty who teach engineering students.

Gender Inclusive Engineering Education (Routledge Research in Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ayre, Mary Elizabeth

Social Sciences

Russell on Arbitration has been the principal reference work for practitioners for over 100 years. Highly respected and with a long-established pedigree, the work has now been completely revised to update practitioners on the latest developments in this area of law. In the 5 years since the previous edition there have been important developments in a number of areas such as challenges to the impartiality of arbitrators, the application of the 'serious irregularity' principle and many others. The operation of the Arbitration Act 1996 in practice, and in particular its key principles set out in section one of the Act, has now been observed. * New edition of the definitive practitioner text on the law and practice of arbitration * Includes the new Arbitration Practice Direction and full coverage of the case law that has developed since the Arbitration Act 1996 * Provides practical, problem-solving information written with the practitioner in mind * A complete reference work - appendices include the Arbitration Act 1996, related statutory instruments, the UNCITRAL Model Law and forms

Russell on Arbitration

Sutton, David St John

Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd.

Effective Internet Search: E-searching Made Easy!

Computers & Technology

Baylin, Edward Norman

Canning, Darlene

Networking & Cloud Computing

Baylin Systems

This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls’ education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys. After an analysis of persistent  disquiet about girls’ lifestyles, it uses theories of gender and education to demonstrate that girls are being produced in contradictory ways in current schooling. Many girls develop a  sense of themselves through close connection with friendship groups but schooling processes typically require them to adopt the position of competitors in the end-of-school rankings and to act out their individualized positions in imagining themselves into the future. Ultimately the work offers insight and understanding leading to a less divisive educational pathway for girls.

A Girl's Education: Schooling and the Formation of Gender, Identities and Future Visions (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education)

Esson, Katharine

Yuen, Rosalina

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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