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SYLLABUS

Aug 24:  Introductions, course expectations, groups, and grading.

Discussion of the pipeline and the Program for Women in Science and Engineering.

Aug 26:  Read and discuss

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 1998. Introduction, chapter 1, chapter 5

Employment--National Science Foundation Report (Handouts).

Sign up for Biographical Presentations
(see ISU Library's Biography Index and Biography & Genealogy Master Index)

Aug 31:  Women in Science and Engineering Archives tour with Tanya Zanish-Belcher, WISE archivist.

Meet at Room 403 in the Parks Library.

Sept 2:  Introducing our web page, its links, and biographic research methods.

Meet in room 32 in the Parks Library.

Sept 7:  Diversity, culture, science and engineering.

"Maintaining Diversity in Science". 1996. Elizabeth Culotta, ed.  Science 264: 1901-1921. (Course Pack)

Price, Lisa and Margo Brouns.  1999. Science by and for Women in Developing Countries.  UNESCO Network on Women and Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands. (Excerpts as handouts)

Sept 9:  Diversity, culture, science and engineering.

Women in Science 1994: Comparisons Across Cultures. John Benditt, ed. Science 263: 1467-1496. (Course Pack)

Sept 13:  Diversity, culture, science and engineering.

Panel of International Women Scientists and Engineers

Sept 16:  Presentations of biographies of women scientists and engineers

Sept 21:  Presentations of biographies of women scientists and engineers

Sept 23:  Women and the Environment

Discuss Rachel Carson and the importance of Silent Spring.

Read:

Carson, Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, Mass. Foreward,Chapters 1,2,8, 17 and References. (Purchase or on reserve at the library)

Pesticides: the Price for Progress. 1962. Time. Sept. 28. pp 45-48. and Darby, William J. 1962. Silence, Miss Carson. Chemistry and Engineering News. October 1. pp 61-63

Sept 28:  Rachel Carson Video

Biographical abstract and paper due

Sept 30:  Relevancy of Rachel Carson today; Ecofeminism.

Excerpts from Theo Colburn's book "Our Stolen Future" and selected responses to the book (Handouts)

Merchant, Carolyn. 1990. Ecofeminism and feminist theory. in Reweaving the World. The emergence of ecofeminism. eds. Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein. Sierra Club Books. San Francisco, CA. (Handouts)

Oct 5:  Barriers to women entering science: Precollege education.

Read :

Sadker, Myra and David Sadker. 1994. "Through the Back Door: the History of Women's Education". Chapter 2 in Failing at Fairness. Touchstone, New York. (Handout)

Oct 7:  Barriers to women entering science: Precollege education continued.

AAUW and Greenberg/Lake: the Analysis Group. 1990. Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America. (Handout)

AAUW report 1998. Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children.

Oct 12:  History of Women's Education in Engineering

Lecture by Dr. Amy Bix, History Department, ISU

Oct 14:  Equity in the classroom

Oct 19:  Student reports on careers

Turn in career reports

Oct 21:  Juggling Family and Career

Peters, Joan K. 1997. When Mothers Work: Loving our Children Without Sacrificing Our Selves. Addison-Wesley. Reading, Massachusets. Ch.1 "The millennial dilemma: our children or our lives? and Ch 11. Solving the Mother Puzzle. (Handouts)

Oct 26:  Panel on juggling family and career

Oct 28:  Chilly Climate for women in academia: the MIT Report

Read the MIT Report (Handout)

Nov 2:  Workplace Barriers in Engineering.

Read:

McIlwee, Judith S. and J. Gregg Robinson. 1992. Women in Engineering. Gender Power and Workplace Culture. SUNY Press, Albany, New York. Chapters 5 and 6. (Handout)

Nov 9:  Panel of guest women engineers.

Nov 11:  Gender Myths

Read:

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 1985. Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior, Chapter 4 . Myths of Gender. Basic Books, New York. (Course Pack)

Pollack, William. 1998. Real Boys. Rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood. Chapters 1 and 3. Random House, New York. (Handout)

Nov 16:  Feminist Critiques of Science.

Marion Namenwirth. 1986. "Science Seen Through a Feminist Prism," in Feminist Approaches to Science, Ruth Bleier, ed. Teachers College Press. Colchester, VT (Course Pack)

Martin, Emily. 1996. The Egg and Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles. in Feminism and Science, Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen Longino, eds.  Oxford Univ Press. New York. (Course Pack)

Nov 18:  Would women do science differently?

Read:

Ginzberg, R. 1989. "Uncovering gynocentric science." In: Feminism and science. N. Tuana, ed. Indiana University Press.Bloomington, IN. (Course Pack)

Gender and the Culture of Science. 1993. The Female Style pp 384-392 and A Case Study: Primatology, pp 420-429. John Benditt, ed. Sci 260: 384-430. (Course Pack)

Nov. 30:  Has feminism changed science?

Schiebinger, Londa. 1999. Has feminism changed science? Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.  Ch 6.   Medicine, pp 107-125 and Conclusions, pp 181-195. (Handouts)

Dec 2:  Student Presentations based on the Term Paper

Dec 7:  Student Presentations based on the Term Paper

Dec 9:  Student Presentations based on the Term Paper

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