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TY - JOUR
T1 - 'I wouldn't say it's sexism, except that ... It's all these little subtle things'
T2 - healthcare scientists' accounts of gender in healthcare science laboratories
AU - Bevan, V.
AU - Learmonth, M.
N1 - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - We explore healthcare scientists’ accounts of men in healthcare science laboratories. By focussing on subtle masculinist actions that women find disadvantageous to them, we seek to extend knowledge about women’s under-representation in senior positions in healthcare science – despite women being in the majority at junior levels. We maintain that healthcare science continues to be dominated by taken-for-granted masculinities that marginalize women, keeping them in their ‘place’. Our aim is to make visible the subtle practices that are normally invisible by showing masculinities in action. Principally using feminist analyses, our findings show that both women and men are often unaware of taken-for-granted masculinist actions, and even when women do notice, they rarely challenge the subtle sexist behaviour.
AB - We explore healthcare scientists’ accounts of men in healthcare science laboratories. By focussing on subtle masculinist actions that women find disadvantageous to them, we seek to extend knowledge about women’s under-representation in senior positions in healthcare science – despite women being in the majority at junior levels. We maintain that healthcare science continues to be dominated by taken-for-granted masculinities that marginalize women, keeping them in their ‘place’. Our aim is to make visible the subtle practices that are normally invisible by showing masculinities in action. Principally using feminist analyses, our findings show that both women and men are often unaware of taken-for-granted masculinist actions, and even when women do notice, they rarely challenge the subtle sexist behaviour.
KW - feminist research
KW - healthcare science
KW - taken-for-granted masculinities
KW - under-representation of women
KW - women in science
U2 - 10.1177/0306312712460606
DO - 10.1177/0306312712460606
M3 - Journal article
VL - 43
SP - 136
EP - 158
JO - Social Studies of Science
JF - Social Studies of Science
SN - 0306-3127
IS - 1
ER -