Abstract
Girls and women remain substantially under-represented in mathematics, science, and technology in school and in the workplace. Although this problem is recognized, its complexity is widely underestimated and causes are not well understood. We review prevailing explanations, which tend to concentrate either on possible gender differentials in qualities such as self-confidence, or on school practices that allow boys to dominate classroom interaction and monopolize such technology as computers. We also identify disadvantageous features of higher education and the workplace. We then consider what is known about educational innovation, especially in the area of gender equity, and describe some interventions concerned with gender and science and technology education. Finally, we raise unresolved questions and issues about gender equity efforts in science and technology education and suggest directions for research. Les filles et les femmes sont nettement sous-representes en mathematiques, en science et en technologie a l’ecole et sur le marche du travail. Bien que ce probleme soit reconnu, sa complexite est largement sous-estimee et ses causes ne sont pas bien comprises. Les auteurs passent en revue les explications qui ont presentement cours, lesquelles tendent a mettre en relief soit les differences qui existeraient entre les sexes pour ce qui est, par exemple, de la confiance en soi, soit les pratiques scolaires qui permettent aux garcons de dominer l’interaction en classe et de monopoliser la technologie, comme les ordina- teurs. Les auteurs identifient egalement les caracteristiques desavantageuses de l’education superieure et des milieux de travail. Ils se penchent ensuite sur les connaissances actuelles au sujet des innovations en education, particulierement dans le domaine de l’egalite entre les sexes, et decrivent quelques interventions tenant compte du sexe dans l’enseignement des sciences et de la technologie. Ils terminent en soulevant quelques questions non re- glees au sujet des efforts a faire en matiere d’egalite des sexes dans les cours de science et de technologie et proposent des orientations pour la recherche.
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