Pleasure, Power, &amp; Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace.

Acker, Joan; Hacker, Sally L.

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“…(Hacker 1989) Thus, worker cooperatives remain an important site for research into women's equality. .…”

Section: Gender and Worker Cooperatives Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“Gender Trouble”

Miller

2011

Review of Radical Political Economics

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This paper explores the relationship between gender equality and economic democracy in worker cooperatives in the United States. A specific method for analyzing women's status in worker cooperatives is proposed. Preliminary findings from a small-scale survey of U.S. worker cooperatives in 2001 are presented, showing that despite the egalitarian nature of cooperatives several gender inequalities persist. JEL classification: J54, B54, P13

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“…(Hacker 1989) Thus, worker cooperatives remain an important site for research into women's equality. .…”

Section: Gender and Worker Cooperatives Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“Gender Trouble”

Miller

2011

Review of Radical Political Economics

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“…Extending Sally Hacker's (1989) early work on the masculinization of technology and technologists, Ruth Oldenziel (1999) found that the professionalization of engineering was a project that turned out to be a thoroughly male and middleclass endeavor. Karen Tonso (2007) showed how practitioner identities at an engineering school did not include women.…”

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confidence: 99%

Engineering Studies

Downey

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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This article highlights the growing need to understand the situated commitments and practices of engineers and engineering. It asks: What is engineering for? What are engineers for? Much research challenges images of normative holism and technicalsocial dualism. The first equates engineering practices with material advancements for humanity as a whole. The second demarcates technical contents of engineering work from social practices that engineers participate in as people. Critical analyses examine images of engineers serving a profession, private industry, and the nation, state, or country, as well as producing technology through design and protecting gender, racial, heterosexual, and developmental privilege. Each delineates pathways for critical participation.We live in highly engineered worlds. Engineers play crucial roles in the normative direction of localized knowledge and social orders. This article highlights the growing need to understand the situated commitments and practices of engineers and engineering. It asks: What is engineering for? What are engineers for?Drawing from a diverse arena of research, teaching, and outreach, this article raises awareness of how engineers imagine themselves in service to humanity, and how their service ideals impact the defining and solving of problems with multiple ends and variable consequences. It does so by examining relationships among technical and nontechnical dimensions, and how these relationships change over time and from place to place. Its researchers often are critical participants in the practices of education and work that they study.Engineering studies scholars conduct historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, rhetorical, and organizational research on engineers and engineering, paying particular attention to normative directionality in engineering epistemologies, practices, identities, and outcomes. Areas of concern include engineering formation, engineering work, engineering design, equity in engineering (gender, racial, ethnic, class, geopolitical), and engineering service to society.This article thus pursues three related missions: (1) advance critical analysis and understanding of engineers, engineering, and outcomes of engineering work; (2) help build and serve communities of researchers and learners in engineering studies; and (3) expand critical participation in engineering education, research, practice, policy, and representation as important practices of knowledge production and scalable scholarship.

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“…For example, the androcentric bases of engineering culture were the focus of early studies by Hacker (1981Hacker ( , 1989Hacker ( , 1990, who conducted fieldwork at several academic institutes of engineering, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Drawing on extensive classroom observations and interviews, Hacker characterized the culture of engineering as a professional ideology that places particular stress on the importance of mathematical ability (and that uses mathematics testing as a filter that effectively limits women's entry to the field).…”

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“…With its origins in 17th-century military institutions (Bergvall, 1996;Hacker, 1989), engineering is said to have evolved within a particular ideological framework-according to feminist critics, one that emphasizes a mechanistic worldview, the control of nature, and the privileging of "cool" mathematical reasoning over inexact humanistic knowledge (Keller, 1985;Sorensen, 1992;Wajcman, 1991). Engineering, the prototypical masculine profession, is a particularly rich site for the study of gender negotiations.…”

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Engineering Selves

Jorgenson

2002

Management Communication Quarterly

164

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This article used the concept of discursive positioning to explore the narrative construction of professional identities among women engineers. The analysis of interviews with 15 women in a variety of engineering specialties suggested that they adopt a variety of distinct and sometimes contradictory positionings to present themselves as qualified professionals. In general, participants were reluctant to acknowledge gender relations as consequential for their careers and were also ambivalent about the implied focus of this research on female engineers as a “marginalized group.” A case is made for including and examining female engineers’ selfdetermined identities to arrive at more adequately complex descriptions of their work realities.

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Pleasure, Power, & Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace.

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