Critical Consciousness of Gender Inequality

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2363726
AutoresCatherine Riegle-Crumb (0000-0003-0855-3614, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, autor correspondente), 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)
Ano2023
Volume66
Fascículo1
Páginas5-27
Data de publicação2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07311214221112448
OpenAlexW4288425333
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências 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