After workshop 1
Between this and the next workshop we would like you to work on several different, but important, aspects.
Jamboards from WS1
Here are the three boards from WS1:
- What have I learned?
- What do I want to know more about?
- What was hard?
Gender
We need to understand the concept of gender:
Do
- read Gendered Innovation homepage on Terms Links to an external site..
- read chapter 1 from Conell (see resources section below). Optional: chapter 2 (gives interesting examples).
Home assignment 1a
- If you got the question "what is gender?" from a student or staff in physics, how would you answer it? Write your answer in half an A4-page.
Differences and Similarities
Essentialism, is a common idea that will often be used to explain difference in women's and men's careers. But what does modern science say about this?
Do
- Read chapter 3 in Conell and/or watch Rippon's talk Links to an external site.
Home assignment 1b
2. How would you answer a person that argues that the segregation we observe is all due to essential differences in the brains of men and women - essentially present already at birth?
Numbers and segregation
Home assignment 1c
3. Find the statistics - vertical and/or horizontal - for physics either locally in your home university, nationally (your favourite country) or on an international level. Example of sources is "she-figures" for Europe.
Women in the history of physics
Home assignment 1d
4. Schiebinger and others describes examples of women in Science - could you give an example of someone that you find fascinating? What challenges could you see she was facing, from a structural/cultural point of view? Pick someone that Barbro did not bring up in her presentation.
Hand-in
Hand in all your answers in one file here - this will be your material for discussions during workshop 2
Literature and resources
Gender
- Gendered Innovation homepage on Terms Links to an external site.
- Killerman's talk on "the complexity of gender" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRcPXtqdKjE
Links to an external site.
- Crenshaw on "What is intersectionality" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDtnfQ9FHc
Links to an external site. and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRci2V8PxW4
Links to an external site.
- Conell, R. and Pearse, R. 2015, Gender In World Perspective, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK
- Killerman, S. 2013, the Social Justice Advocate's Handbook: A Guide to Gender, Impetus books, Austin, USA
Extra material
- Judith Butler on "Your behaviour creates your gender" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7o2LYATDc
Links to an external site.
- Connell, 2014, "Gender and Power" - electronic resource at Lund Links to an external site.
- Conell, R. and Pearse, R. 2015, Gender In World Perspective, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, chapter 3
Differences and similarities
- Rippon's talk Links to an external site.
- Rippon, G., 2019, The Gendered Brain, The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain, Penguin, USA
- Fine, C. 2011, Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences, London, Icon Books.
- Saini, A. 2017, Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science that Shows it, London: 4th Estate.
History of women in physics/gender perspective on history of physics
- Schiebinger, L. 1999, Has Feminism Changed Science? Chapter: 1 Women in Science, p. 19-64.
- Wertheim, M. 1997, Pythagoras' troucers, Norton.