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Schiebinger, Londa; Gilmartin, Shannon K. – Academe, 2010
Scientists are likely not to be interested in thinking about housework. Housework is, however, related to the life of the mind. Scientists wear clean clothes to the lab, eat food procured and prepared by someone, and live in reasonably clean houses. This labor used to be done by stay-at-home wives. Now, housework is often done by wives and…
Descriptors: Women Scientists, College Faculty, Housework, Gender Differences
Schiebinger, Londa – 1999
This book features a history of women in science and an assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge which poses the questions: (1) Do women do science differently? and (2) How about feminists--male or female? It is argued that science is both a profession and a body of knowledge, and how women have fared and performed in both…
Descriptors: Feminism, Gender Issues, General Education, Science History