Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering

by Julie Mills, Suzanne Franzway, Rhonda Sharp, et al.

Book Overview

Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041567686X
• ISBN13: 9780415676861
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"