Critical Consciousness of Gender Inequality

Considering the Viewpoints of Racially Diverse High School Girls with Engineering Aspirations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2363726
AutoresCatherine Riegle-Crumb (0000-0003-0855-3614, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, autor de correspondencia), Tatiane Russo-Tait (0000-0002-2606-2061, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia), Katherine Doerr (0000-0001-8600-7542, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden), Ursula Nguyen (0000-0001-8176-0885, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA)
Año2023
Volumen66
Número1
Páginas5-27
Fecha de publicación2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07311214221112448
OpenAlexW4288425333
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas58

This study utilizes interviews with 33 racially diverse high school girls who have expressed interest in engineering careers. Using the framework of critical consciousness and informed by intersectional theories, the authors examine their views about gender inequality in engineering. Results revealed that while most articulated systemic understandings of inequality, Black participants were particularly likely to exhibit this critical reflection. Yet many young women revealed a more emerging form of critical reflection, particularly Asian participants. Few respondents expressed critical self-efficacy, or confidence to challenge gender inequality in their future careers; such views were almost exclusively held by Black and Latinx respondents. In contrast, White respondents commonly invoked a 'lean-in' self-efficacy to be successful navigating, but not challenging, the White male-dominated engineering workforce. Overall, we find clear evidence that young women's racialized identities have implications not only for their understandings of gender inequality, but also for their motivation to disrupt it

Consciousness · Critical consciousness · Gender inequality · Inequality · Intersectionality · Pedagogy · Political science · Racism · Social inequality · Sociology · Viewpoints · Workforce · Career Development and Diversity · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Social Psychology