Abstract

FLORES ESPINOLA, Artemisa. Do STS Studies Have Gender?: Women And Gender In Academic Research. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2016, vol.11, n.31, pp.61-92. ISSN 1850-0013.

Publication processes have a key relevance in research, and academic journals are a privileged medium to provide updated information on the development of knowledge in the different scientific spheres. This paper discusses the inequalities between men and women in publications on STS journals. The purpose of this piece is twofold: on the one hand, to provide statistical information about the situation of women and gender; on the other, to analyze the methodological and thematic transformation of this field with the introduction of gender studies. To carry this out, we have analyzed the content of papers on gender of three different academic journals: Social Studies of Science (1971), Science, technology and Human Values (1972) and Technology and Culture (1959). The results reveal the importance of women’s participation in these journals, not only to increase the number of women’s publications, but also to have access to a greater number of articles about women and gender in STS. Although feminist gender studies and STS studies share the interdisciplinary aspect and the methodological pluralism, we observe a reluctance of STS studies to fully contribute to the feminist theory. The science, technology and gender studies are a common platform between these two traditions whose convergence is a key challenge of the feminist analysis.

Keywords : Inequalities; Women; Gender; STS; Academic journals.