Science is a difficult concept simply that to define it, is to define all we know about the world in which we live. I am of the opinion, that since the dawn of the scientific age there has been a clear and defining breakdown in terms of gender in science. As a young woman studying Marine Biology, I someday wish to be viewed as a member of the scientific community. In spite of this, when I think of a ‘scientist’, a man in a lab coat is all that comes to mind. This is the historical image of the scientist, perpetuated through generations, not only in the classroom, but in all facets of science and its representations. I believe this has to do with the patriarchal hierarchy which dictates social roles in almost all civilisations throughout
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Why is it that when a womans activity leads to knowledge of the natural world it is not called a science? For a long time, midwifery was not considered a science. Politics called it a ‘vocation’, to some people it still is… As Ginzburg put it, these activities had not been awarded the ‘honorific title of science’. Now, as we emerge into the first quarter of the 21st Century it could be said that we are becoming more open to the idea of feminist-science, though not to the idea of an entirely gynocentric structure of science. Such a thing is completely fictional, with various feminist philosophers having tried to conceive a gynocentric …show more content…
Androcentric science, what we know simply as science, is the study of the world around us through observation and experimentation. Is it simply because a man is performing the act that it becomes androcentric? Some feminist philosophers may speculate that if it is for the advancement or benefit of men then it is androcentric; the problem with this is that it doesn’t account for all of the mutual benefit science has brought. An alternative view or interpretation of the androcentric and gynocentric science is that men and women approach different task with different mindsets. With women taking more care and paying more attention to certain areas men would over look and visa
Why is it that when a womans activity leads to knowledge of the natural world it is not called a science? For a long time, midwifery was not considered a science. Politics called it a ‘vocation’, to some people it still is… As Ginzburg put it, these activities had not been awarded the ‘honorific title of science’. Now, as we emerge into the first quarter of the 21st Century it could be said that we are becoming more open to the idea of feminist-science, though not to the idea of an entirely gynocentric structure of science. Such a thing is completely fictional, with various feminist philosophers having tried to conceive a gynocentric …show more content…
Androcentric science, what we know simply as science, is the study of the world around us through observation and experimentation. Is it simply because a man is performing the act that it becomes androcentric? Some feminist philosophers may speculate that if it is for the advancement or benefit of men then it is androcentric; the problem with this is that it doesn’t account for all of the mutual benefit science has brought. An alternative view or interpretation of the androcentric and gynocentric science is that men and women approach different task with different mindsets. With women taking more care and paying more attention to certain areas men would over look and visa