‘I wouldn’t say it’s sexism, except that … It’s all these little subtle things’

Healthcare scientists’ accounts of gender in healthcare science laboratories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17618216
AutoresValerie Bevan (Department of Management Learning and Leadership, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, autor de correspondencia), Mark Learmonth (0000-0003-3436-9386, Durham Business School, Durham University, Durham, UK)
Año2012
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas136-158
Fecha de publicación2012-12-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Studies of Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0306312712460606
OpenAlexW2169144363
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas65

We explore healthcare scientists’ accounts of men in healthcare science laboratories. By focussing on subtle masculinist actions that women find disadvantageous to them, we seek to extend knowledge about women’s under-representation in senior positions in healthcare science – despite women being in the majority at junior levels. We maintain that healthcare science continues to be dominated by taken-for-granted masculinities that marginalize women, keeping them in their ‘place’. Our aim is to make visible the subtle practices that are normally invisible by showing masculinities in action. Principally using feminist analyses, our findings show that both women and men are often unaware of taken-for-granted masculinist actions, and even when women do notice, they rarely challenge the subtle sexist behaviour

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