ECO200Y5 Chapter Notes -Anna Murray-Douglass, Christine De Pizan, Sweet Valley High
Document Summary
Women and the history of gender thought: gender and canon. How women labor has gone unseen in the academy. Bruce holsinger in 2017 started tweeting about that and people were brought to notice to the work which women did behind the scenes. Leaky pipeline: leaky pipeline refers to the progressive reduction in women"s participation at the different stages of the career progression in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) fields. In many instances, this gap is most prominent at the inventor level. Factors like family etc. result in female dropping out. How the gender politics of academia influence how we read history and what counts as intellectual work in history of political thought. Historical reality show that women wrote about politics in a variety of literary forms like poems etc. and these works were excluded from academic curriculum. Gender politics also shapes who is considered an intellect: impact on perceptions of intellectual labor and production.
