Gendering platform research

Gendering Excellence in Technological Research: A Comparative European Perspective

Gender patterns in technological and engineering research careers were explored in the EU funded 13-country study PROMETEA in 2005-2007, including old and new EU member states, and Serbia, the Russian Federation and Chile. Drawing from this study, the article analyses the gendering of key arenas of excellence in technological and engineering research from a comparative international perspective...

Introduction: gendering socio cultural alcohol and drug research.

AIM The gender gap in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm still is considerable and largely unexplained. This paper introduces four studies performed in Sweden that explore factors influencing gender differences in levels of consumption, adverse consequences and treatment. METHOD We summarize and discuss these four studies performed within the same cultural setting, which each analys...

Gendering the Job:

Gender segregation of jobs plays a central role in current research on gender and labor markets, and understanding the mechanisms driving the gender segregation has become a key focus of study. While the literature on gender segregation of jobs often invoke gender sorting mechanisms that operate pre-hire, the data that are used to empirically examine these processes are almost always collected ...

Gendering Socialist Popular Cultures

Virtual Space as a Platform for Student Research Practices

Online learning is becoming an increasingly popular request. Many universities are moving fully or partially to this form of study. In the article, the authors considered what is virtual space, what are its criteria, as well as applicability for teaching students and passing research practices. Based on an analysis of existing virtual spaces (platforms), an experiment was conducted. The study s...