All Quiet on the Technical Education Front?

Authors

  • Anina Mischau Interdisziplinäres Frauenforschungs-Zentrum (IFF), Universität Bielefeld

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/191

Keywords:

Bildung, Hochschule, Schule, Sozialisation, Technik, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Over the past few years, the continuing under-representation of women in technical jobs that require training, technical fields of study, and technical fields of work has been a much-researched topic. Studies have sought to investigate the causes for this under-representation, as well as to develop and try out approaches to overcome this phenomenon. The two studies reviewed in this article can be considered to be part of this field of research as well. Andrea Wolffram’s study deals with social and performance-related stress in technical fields of study, and the coping strategies employed by male and female engineering students at different universities. Wolffram thus investigates an important question which has hardly been taken into account in the existing discourse. Christine Wächter’s study combines the theoretical analysis of the conflicting fields of “being a woman, technology and maleness” and practical approaches. Her central concern, enabling girls and women to actively participate in the dynamic interplay between technology and society, aims at the heart of a socio-politically relevant discourse about hegemony.

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Published

2003-07-01

Issue

No. 10 (2003): Kindheit und Jugend

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2003 Anina Mischau

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