Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in Stem Work

Armstrong, Mary A., Averett, Susan L.

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-09
  • 售價: $2,210
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,100
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 376
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262048868
  • ISBN-13: 9780262048866
  • 相關分類: 經濟學 Economy
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商品描述

An exploration of workplace participation and earnings patterns for diverse women in US STEM professions that upends the myth that STEM work benefits women economically.

Seen as part economic driver, part social remedy, STEM work is commonly understood to benefit both the US economy and people--particularly women--from underrepresented groups. But what do diverse women find when they work in US STEM occupations? What do STEM jobs really deliver--and for whom? In Disparate Measures, Mary Armstrong and Susan Averett challenge the conventional wisdom that a diverse US STEM workforce will bring about economic abundance for the women who participate in it. Combining intersectionality theory and critical data theory with a feminist economic analysis, the authors explore how different groups of diverse women truly fare in US STEM professions.

Disparate Measures is centered on eight unique, in-depth case studies, each of which provides an intersectional economic analysis (a term coined by the authors) of diverse women working in STEM occupations. Four case studies prioritize women of color and examine the STEM participation and earnings of Black women, American Indian and Alaska Native women, Asian and Pacific Islander women, and Hispanic women/Latinas; four additional case studies illuminate intersections that are frequently neglected by the STEM inclusivity literature: foreign-born women, women with disabilities, Queer women, and mothers. What the authors find in their groundbreaking, detailed analysis is that the promises of STEM are only partly true: when compared to women not working in STEM, most women are indeed economically elevated by STEM occupations--yet when compared to white men in the same STEM occupations, women's second-class status is usually reaffirmed. The authors conclude by offering seven "big-picture" recommendations for rethinking STEM equity, showing just how we can successfully confront the entrenched patterns of economic disadvantage faced by diverse women in STEM jobs.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本探索美國科技、工程、數學 (STEM) 領域中不同族裔女性工作參與和收入模式的書籍,顛覆了STEM工作對女性經濟利益的迷思。

STEM工作被視為經濟驅動力和社會療法的一部分,普遍認為它對美國經濟以及來自少數族裔群體的人,特別是女性,都有利益。但是,當不同族裔的女性在美國從事STEM職業時,她們會發現什麼?STEM工作真正帶來了什麼?對誰有利?在《不平等的衡量》一書中,瑪麗·阿姆斯壯和蘇珊·艾弗雷特挑戰了一個常見的觀點,即多元化的美國STEM勞動力將為參與其中的女性帶來經濟豐盛。作者們結合交叉性理論、關鍵數據理論和女性主義經濟分析,探討了不同族裔女性在美國STEM職業中的真實狀況。

《不平等的衡量》以八個獨特而深入的案例研究為核心,每個案例都提供了對從事STEM職業的不同族裔女性的交叉性經濟分析(這是作者們創造的一個術語)。其中四個案例研究優先考慮有色人種女性,並研究黑人女性、美洲原住民和阿拉斯加原住民女性、亞洲和太平洋島民女性以及西班牙裔女性/拉丁裔女性在STEM領域的參與和收入情況;另外四個案例研究闡明了STEM包容性文獻經常忽視的交叉性:外籍女性、殘障女性、酷兒女性和母親。在他們開創性的詳細分析中,作者們發現STEM的承諾只在一定程度上成立:與不從事STEM工作的女性相比,大多數女性確實因STEM職業而經濟上升,但與同樣從事STEM職業的白人男性相比,女性的二等公民地位通常得到了重申。作者最後提出了七個“大局觀”的建議,重新思考STEM的公平性,展示了我們如何成功地面對STEM工作中不同族裔女性所面臨的根深蒂固的經濟劣勢模式。

作者簡介

Mary A. Armstrong is Charles A. Dana Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English and Chair of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Lafayette College.

Susan L. Averett is Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at Lafayette College.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Mary A. Armstrong 是拉斐特學院的查爾斯·A·達納女性、性別和性學研究以及英語教授,同時也是拉斐特學院女性、性別和性學研究計劃的主任。

Susan L. Averett 是拉斐特學院的查爾斯·A·達納經濟學教授。