Matters of gender in physics, engineering and technology

Abstract

This issue of Matters of Gender reflects specifically on the relevance and topicality of gender studies in physics, engineering and technology through the fifteen contributions that make up the Monographic. On the basis of the official cultural and academic recognition of women scientists vs. men scientists, it investigates the participation of young women in subjects related to technique and technology in the pre-university stage, as well as the androcentric biases that persist in university studies in these disciplines. These are motivated, mainly, by the persistence of very masculinized cloisters that, under the topic of achieved equality, are not very permeable to studies and to the gender perspective. The Monographic concludes with contributions that directly apply gender studies to research and professional activity in these fields.

Added to this content are seven articles from the Open Tribune, whose topics revolve, in a generic way, about the forms of control and violence exerted on women, focusing on the normalization of bodies, on labor stereotypes, and in the lack of training to face multicultural realities.

Four reviews of poetry books and essays close the issue, incorporating in one of them the translation of a chapter of the reviewed book, in which the authors themselves have participated.