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A paper which looks at the future of women in the scientific community, with particular reference to feminist science and the cultural barriers which hinder women scientists from contributing fully to the field. Bibliography lists 7 sources
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should make up 50% of the scientific community by 2020, it is probably worth considering first of all how the terms in such a proposition might usefully be defined -
what, for instance, constitutes the "scientific community", and are "women" defined from a strictly biological perspective, or are we looking at the much more complex issue of gender and gender-oriented
role models? Taking the latter first, as Haslanger (2000)
points out, there are various dimensions to gender, concerned with the kind of roles and attributes which are assigned to men and women based on their sexual identity. There are
different social roles, as well as different norms of behaviour and performance, and for one gender to subscribe to the roles and behaviours of the others is generally considered aberrant.
As Anderson (2004) points out, so-called "masculine" traits are viewed as virtues if exhibited by men and vices if exhibited by women, and vice versa, giving a strict differential between
acceptable behaviours by both. The postmodernist feminist perspective is somewhat
more flexible, in that it looks at gendered behaviours in terms of context: masculine and feminine behaviours can still be distinguished from each other, but they can be demonstrated by
individuals of both genders depending on the social context. If one is considering the position of women in science from the epistemological point of view, one therefore has to take
into account the impact of gendered bodies on socialisation, and the different approaches to knowledge and experience which men and women have, as a result.
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