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- Title
Cultural Correlates of Gender Integration in Science.
- Authors
Cain, Cindy L.; Leahey, Erin
- Abstract
Gender integration within science has been uneven: some fields have integrated women to almost equitable levels, while others remain male-dominated. Explanations for this variation abound, but few are able to assess empirically the relevance of disciplinary cultures in a systematic way. We take up this challenge by analysing accounts of scientific success in fields that integrated women to a large degree (Psychology and the Life Sciences) and fields that did not (Engineering and Physics). We qualitatively assess how the salience of relationships changed over time in these fields. We find that scientists from disciplines that have crossed the threshold whereby women are no longer tokens culturally value informal relationships more than those in which women remain a small numerical minority.
- Subjects
SCIENCE education; GENDER integration of women's colleges; EMPIRICAL research; MINORITY college students; LIFE science education
- Publication
Gender, Work & Organization, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 6, p516
- ISSN
0968-6673
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/gwao.12052