Women and the Bomb (WoB)

核武器领域是国际安全中最性别化的领域之一，被认为是对妇女特别不友好的工作场所。智库报告批评在核政策辩论中缺乏妇女和性别观点，而性别倡议则寻求增加妇女在该领域的代表性。这些研究和政策倡议有两个共同的结论：第一，妇女在核武器领域的代表性不足。第二，纳入妇女将给这一政策领域带来质的变化。目前，学术文献未能为这两种结论提供实证支持。没有系统收集的关于从事核武器工作的妇女人数的数据，妇女在这一领域的工作经验只是轶事记录，妇女人数增加的影响仍然不清楚。妇女与炸弹项目将通过有条不紊地收集和分析缺失的定量和定性数据来解决这些差距。世界妇女研究所将进行大规模、系统的数据收集工作，并对冷战后美国妇女对这一领域的贡献进行多地点人种学研究。它将描绘妇女在核武器领域的代表性，探讨从事核武器工作的女性专业人员的经验和想法，并调查性别平衡的增加可能如何改变政策进程。

The nuclear weapons field is one of the most gendered areas of international security and reputed to be a particularly hostile workplace for women. Think tank reports criticise the absence of women and gendered perspectives from nuclear policy debates while gender initiatives seek to increase the representation of women in the field. These studies and policy initiatives share two conclusions: First, women are underrepresented in the nuclear weapons field. Second, the inclusion of women would bring a qualitative change to this policy area. Currently, academic literature fails to provide empirical support for both conclusions. Systematically collected data is missing on the number of women who are working with nuclear weapons, women's experiences of working in the field have been recorded only anecdotally and the impact of women's increased representation remains unclear. The Women and the Bomb (WoB) project will address these gaps by methodically gathering and analysing the missing quantitative and qualitative data. WoB will conduct a large-scale, systematic data collection exercise and a multi-site ethnographic study of women's contributions to the field in the United States (US) in the post- Cold War era. It will map women's representation in the nuclear weapons field, explore the experiences and ideas of female professionals who work with nuclear weapons and investigate how an increase in gender balance might change policy processes.