Gendering Science: International Conference Travel

本项目将支持美国学者参加将在捷克布拉格查尔斯大学举行的“性别科学：女性和男性生产知识”国际会议。会议由科学、技术和医学史中的妇女和性别研究委员会与捷克国家性别与科学联络中心、捷克科学院和查尔斯大学的几个单位合作组织。这次会议的目标是把国际学者聚集在一起，推动学术努力，通过分析男女在知识生产中的合作，超越对女性如何在科学中被边缘化的关注。这次会议的成果将包括促进国际知识交流、学术研究和广泛传播。STEM领域的女性代表仍然不足，在物理科学、工程、计算机科学和数学领域尤其如此。在科学史上，科学中的性别问题继续被忽视，其程度与其应有的关注不相称。这项资助的美国参与者包括高级学者（其中一些是委员会的创始成员）和初级学者，他们的工作将大大受益于本次会议将促进的知识对话。所有七名参与者和首席研究员都将出席会议，该会议的目的是在国际上推广性别与科学方面的STS奖学金。自1981年以来，委员会在STS的这一领域设立了高级奖学金。近年来，委员会特别关注增加早期职业学者和经济困难地区学者的参与，并促进突出STEM领域性别代表性不足的领域的奖学金。这次会议是一次开拓性的尝试，通过提出一个涉及女性和男性创造知识的动力的主题，将焦点扩展到“女性参与科学”之外。科学史学和科学性别人口统计学都将从这次会议和美国代表团的参与中受益。

General Audience Summary This project will support the participation of US scholars in the international conference, "Gendering Science: Women and Men Producing Knowledge," to be held at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. The conference is organized by the Commission on Women and Gender Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in collaboration with the Czech National Contact Centre for Gender & Science, the Czech Academy of Sciences, and several units of Charles University. The goal of the conference is to bring international scholars together to advance scholarly efforts to move beyond a focus on how women have been marginalized in science by analyzing the collaborations between women and men in knowledge production. The outcomes of this conference will include promotion of international intellectual interchange, scholarship, and broad dissemination. STEM fields remain underrepresented by women, and this is especially true in the physical sciences, engineering, computer sciences, and mathematics. Within the history of science, gender questions in science continue to be neglected at an extent incommensurate with the attention they deserve.Technical Summary The US participants on this grant include both senior scholars, some of whom are founding members of the Commission, and junior scholars whose work would greatly benefit from the intellectual dialogue that this conference will promote. All seven of the participants plus the principal investigator are scheduled to present in sessions at the conference, which is organized to promote STS scholarship on gender and science internationally. Since 1981, the commission has advanced scholarship in this area of STS. In recent years, the Commission has been particularly focused on increasing participation of early career scholars and scholars from economically distressed regions, and promoting scholarship that highlights continuing areas of gender underrepresentation in STEM fields. This conference is a pioneering attempt to expand the focus beyond "women in science," by posing a theme that concerns the dynamics of both women and men producing knowledge. Both the historiography of science and gender demographics of science will benefit from this conference and the US contingent's participation.