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| Titre : | “I am Not a Feminist, but. . .” : Hegemony of a Meritocratic Ideology and the Limits of Critique Among Women in Engineering (2018) |
| Auteurs : | Carroll Seron ; Susan S. Silbey ; Erin Cech ; Brian Rubineau |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Work and Occupations (vol. 45, n° 2, May 2018) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. pp. 131–167 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ INGENIEUR ; GRANDE ECOLE ; FEMME ; GENRE ; DIVISION SEXUELLE DU TRAVAIL ; ETATS UNIS ; CULTURE |
| Résumé : | Engineering is often described as an enduring bastion of masculine culture where women experience marginality. Using diaries from undergraduate engineering students at four universities, the authors explore women’s interpretations of their status within the profession. The authors’ findings show that women recognize their marginality, providing clear and strong criticisms of their experiences. But these criticisms remain isolated and muted; they coalesce neither into broader organizational or institutional criticisms of engineering, nor into calls for change. Instead, their criticisms are interpreted through two values central to engineering culture: meritocracy and individualism. [...] The unquestioned presumption of meritocracy and the invisibility of its muting effects on critiques resembles not hegemonic masculinity—for these women proudly celebrate their femininity—but a hegemony of meritocratic ideology. The authors conclude that engineering education successfully turns potential critics into agents of cultural reproduction.(source: article) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0730888418759774 |
