Call for paper

Meta-analysis of gender and science research is inviting to the conference Beyond the leaky pipeline, to be heldt 19-20 October 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.

I have represented Norway in the Meta-analysis project. Working with this project has been really interesting, including going through research and debates on women in science and research from the early1980s until today. One of my favorites from this material is a quote from a letter from the early 1980s, written by a female researcher to the male minister of education, where she lists the first names of the newly elected members of the board of the faculty: all male, followed by ” That was all for now, Love” and her own first name: the only woman. Plain, straighforward, impossible not to see the absurdity of the situation. A lot of things have changed in Norway during the last three decades! Not only the changes, but also how we see (or don’t see) them is one of the things I’m working with at the moment, for instance in this short paper: “Disrupting the Impression of Stability in the Gender-Technology Relation” (presented at The 5th European Symposium on Gender & ICT, in Bremen last March).

There’s already a number of reports from the META-project online that would give an idea of the project and the kinds of discussions that will be of interest for the conference audience.