Progress and stagnation of gender equity: contradictory trends within mathematics research and education in Sweden.

Autor/in	Brandell, Gerd
Titel	Progress and stagnation of gender equity: contradictory trends within mathematics research and education in Sweden.
Quelle	In: ZDM : mathematics education, 40 (2008) 4, S. 659-672 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1863-9690; 1863-9704
DOI	10.1007/s11858-008-0127-7
Schlagwörter	Gender; Frau; Mathematik; Mathematikunterricht; Karriere; Hochschulbildung; Akademiker; Hochschulsystem; Geschlechterkonstellation; Rekrutierung; Schweden
Abstract	During the last decade women in Sweden have reduced men's lead in participation in mathematics education and in professional careers as mathematicians. However, the development is uneven and slow overall. In some areas and at the highest levels women have increased their participation only marginally. Why, one may ask, is progress so slow after almost 20 years of active work from the Women and Mathematics movement in Sweden and within a society in which gender equity is highly valued at the societal and political levels? The development is described in quantitative measures going back 20 years. Several concrete and successful initiatives from the last decade intended to "de-gender" mathematics and to involve women and men alike in mathematics are described. In contrast a gender-blind position or a view of women as problems in mathematics seems to reign within some influential bodies.
Erfasst von	FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur
Update	2010/2