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Gender, engineering, and professional technical education

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Published: 2021-09-06

Authors

Ana Gabriela Buquet Corleto

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-8609

Hortensia Manuela Moreno Esparza

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0905-6743

DOI: 10.14507/epaa.29.5170

Keywords: doing gender; technical education; engineering; disciplinary segregation; sexual division of labor

Abstract

This paper provides insights on gender inequalities in engineering, technical education, and professions and how these fields are identified as masculine. Building on data about women’s participation in other professional fields, empirical studies about the institutional climate in engineering schools in various countries, and ethnographical research in Mexico City about professional career paths of women in “masculine” occupations, we applied the idea of “doing gender” (West & Zimmerman, 1987) as a conceptual tool for the sociological analysis of the sexual division of labor in the technical professions.

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Author Biographies

Ana Gabriela Buquet Corleto

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Investigadora y profesora en el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género de la Unviversidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Doctora en Sociología por la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas de la UNAM.

Hortensia Manuela Moreno Esparza

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Profesora e investigadora en el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género. Doctora en Ciencias Sociales con especialidad en Mujer y Relaciones de Género por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.

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Published: 2021-09-06

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Buquet Corleto, A. G., & Moreno Esparza, H. M. (2021). Gender, engineering, and professional technical education. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(August - December). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5170

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Vol. 29 No. August - December (2021)

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