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Sannino, Annalisa; Vainio, Jenny – Gender and Education, 2015
This article addresses the issue of gender imbalance in Finnish universities in the domain of physics as a historical and dialectical phenomenon. Drawing from the Gramscian notion of hegemony and the activity-theoretical notion of contradiction, this paper analyses gendered hegemonic and contradictory forces steering physicists' careers. This…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientists, Gender Differences, Discourse Analysis