	29th Congress Women in Science and Technology: FiNuT Berlin, 29 May - 1 June 2003 subject: standard:deviation
Home Programm the English Program standard:abweichung Der Kongress 2003 FiNuT-Kongresse Kontakt Links	the English Program Networking in Europe Claudia Koltzenburg Workshop, Friday 9:00 - 10:30 Networking: what do I wish to use it for? How does networking start, how does it work? What can I do to benefit from networking? What can I contribute? How do I find others who are keen on discussing my topic? -- Feel free to join this workshop if you would like to learn more about the communication infrastructures we are using and how we might use them more conveniently to reach our goals. Please bring along a topic on which you might want to start a networking process. Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation": Networking has become one of the essential techniques in scientific communication, but not in this field only. The workshop sets out to describe existing infrastructures. After this, participants are invited to exchange their experiences with these "tools". A focus will be placed on reflecting about how we are using the infrastructure and how, maybe, we want it changed to suit our purposes better. Which of these is to be called "standard", which is to be seen as "deviation"? This is precisely what is to be found out in the discussion. And: how ist the dynamics between those categories to be dealt with creatively in our everyday usage? Addressed women: Please to contribute in English Maximal number of participating women: 15 The Author: I have been practising European Networking since 1992 when Liana Borghi, Florence, and I started the network "European Lesbian Studies" within the European Women's Studies Network WISE. I took the 10th anniversary of this network (www.sappho.net/wild) to start reflecting on the methods and the knowledge about networking in European contexts gathered since and took the chance to devise a workshop for the Queer Studies Conference in Warsaw in December 2002. On the basis of the interesting feedback I got, I am now offering such a workshop for the participants of FiNuT 2003. About Some Ways To Change Gender Standards In Ukrainian Scientific Community Olena Klyuchko, Vira Troyan, Nataly Taran Lecture, Friday 11:00 - 12:30 As we showed by monitoring there is a noticeable prevalence of men on the highest administrative positions of science with simultaneous prevalence of women among students and lowest scientific positions in Ukrainian science. We would like to show some our measures aimed on the improving of this standard. One way is a work of our women in a "Small Academy of Science" for children who would like to devote their lives to the future work in science. Another way is a deeper implementation of modern electronic informational technologies among Ukrainian women. The use of computer technologies makes more easily and effective scientific and homework, helps women to solve some career and financial problems. We suggest some ways for further realization of computer education for our women, introducing of new informational methods into the women scientific community and would like to discuss all related questions in comparison with the world scientific women's community experience. Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation": Patriarchal society develop its standards with women? slight representation in main spheres of social life. Sphere of science is not a deviation from this standard. Difficulties in combining of family and scientific work as well as economical difficulties of family life in developing countries ? all this result great intellectual losses of societies. That is why the measures aimed on changes of this standard are important. Our experience evidences that these measures have to be realized by women by themselves. The Authors: We started to work under this theme from 1996, created NGO "Women in Science" (Kyiv). Members of organization have different degrees in science: Ph.D, Doctor of Sciences, among them there are scientists and teachers from different Universities and Research Institutes of National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine). We made connections between women - scientists that work with the youth, teach in Universities and work in Institutes of National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine). Women - members of our NGO investigate gender problems, women's role in history of science, write dissertational works in these spheres, develop educational courses, make questionnaire design for youth in gender sphere, develop information technologies, and simultaneously bring their children up. We organized 2 International Conferences "Women in science and education: past, present, future", already published picturesque calendars - "Women images in Ukrainian science" Women, Power and Progress Frances Grundy Seminar, Friday 14:00 - 15:30 While there is evidence that there are increasing numbers of women entering some of the traditional sciences at undergraduate level, this increase has not followed through to later career stages. This stagnation prompts an analysis of what really are the goals of womens movements; do they have an ultimate shared goal? Indeed can they have a shared goal at all? One goal, not often articulated, was to give greater recognition and reward to essential female qualities like nurturing. The results of attempts to reward these "feminine" attributes are not promising. Not all women have them, and who is to say these are the best attributes anyway. Foucault was a proponent of the objections to essential qualities. I shall relate Foucaults ideas on power, discipline and normalisation to our lives in the scientific workplace. And I shall provide some contemporary examples of how his description of the technologies of power, discipline and normalisation do indeed appear to operate. Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation": A major part of my seminar will be on the way in which traditional scientific and technical communities react to women, for example, who do not conform to their collective idea of the "norm". I will discuss with participants how the processes of discipline and normalisation tend to work in a typical academic environment. The Author: I have worked on gender and technology for over 10 years and have been taking a special interest in Foucault for the past year. During this academic year I have given seminars at the T-U Wien on the relevance of Foucault's ideas on power and discourse to the position of women in technology today. going beyond gender: thinking of issues of race and racism within computing Seda Gürses Workshop, Friday 16:00 - 17:30 feminist discourses on computing have produced wonderful critiques of the gendered inclusionary and exclusionary practices within computer science. With varying emphasis on practical and theoretical issues the science of computing has been and continues to be genderized by feminist scholars. Unfortunately, race or racist practices have so far not been a central concern of these discourses. In addition, the feminist discourse on computing has mostly remained limited to the white/european/anglo-american setting, unable to attract the participation and perspectives of immigrants and people of color. Within the workshop I will provide the participants with two scenarios that make issues of race and gender visible within computing. We will then go on to discuss how mechanisms of race work within computing and within circles of feminist scientists. We will look into practies of objectivity, rationality, standards within the science of computing, and the language of critique within the feminist discourse. We will then look into developing strategies together for dealing with issues of race and gender. Maximal number of participating women: 10 Gender Standards In Ukrainian Scientific Community Vira Troyan, Olena Klyuchko, Nataly Taran Lecture, Saturday 9:00 - 10:30 The Ukraine is undergoing a process of democratic reform and this allows us - NGO "Women in Science", Kiev - to investigate gender problems. We showed that we have 51% of women - students, 14-20% - Doctors of Sciences and only 4% - Academicians. A low percentage of women is observed among scientists, professors of National Kyiv University and National Technical University. A comparison of these data with those from countries of the EU, USA and Japan allows us to conclude that such data are close to standards for the scientific community in the whole world. We're aiming to improve this situation and we work on: an analysis of the reasons of women's low representation in science, gender monitoring of different branches in science and education, introduction of the gender equality idea into the gifted youth education, development of training programs and seminars for the increase of women in professional and social activity, establishing an information network, spreading the data concerning women's role in science progress. Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation": Patriarchal society develops its standards with women: slight representation in main spheres of social life. The sphere of science is not a deviation from this standard. Difficulties in combining of family and scientific work as well as economical difficulties of family life in developing countries - all this results in great intellectual losses of societies. That is why the measures aimed on changes of this standard are important. Our experience evidences that these measures have to be realized by women by themselves. The Authors: We have worked under this theme from the time of creation of our NGO "Women in Science" (Kyiv) in 1996. The members of our organization have different degrees in science: Ph.D, Doctor of Sciences, among them there are scientists and teachers from different Universities and Research Institutes of National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine). Personality Status and Scientific Knowledge Valentyna Stakhnevych, Larysa Sklepova Lecture, Saturday 11:00 - 12:30 Our country as all countries of the world has its own standards, installations, norms, etc., which strongly influence our perception of different branches of Science and Technology, the world and ourselves. Integration of sciences is directed to help people from different countries to push scientific technical progress not only in the own country but in the whole world. When we speak about scientific technical progress we can not touch upon the question - who defines norms, standards, installations etc. Naturally people - men and women. To-day progress of science depends also on status of a personality in society, understanding his or her position in it, norms and society installations and also myths concerning this or that member of the society. All of this is closely connected with the conception of gender. The Conception of gender, gender stereotypes, gender equality, gender roles and other definitions are entered in the life of many countries. These definitions can be accepted by the country, people or some people differently. It depends on many factors: national mentality, level of development of this or that society, active position and erudition of this or that member of society - a man or a woman etc. We are trying in our activity to do some attempts to "wake up" young generation - students, graduate students and young scientists to take an active vital position in their own life and in science too. Some of our scientific data will be presented in the report. The Authors: Dr. Valentyna Stakhnevyc and Dr. Larysa Sklepova are the representatives of the National Agricultural University, Kiev, Ukraine. Professors and the leaders of the NGO association "Women in Agricultural Education" from 1997.

29th Congress Women in Science and Technology: FiNuT

Berlin, 29 May - 1 June 2003

subject: standard:deviation

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Networking in Europe

Claudia Koltzenburg

Workshop, Friday 9:00 - 10:30

Networking: what do I wish to use it for? How does networking start, how does it work? What can I do to benefit from networking? What can I contribute? How do I find others who are keen on discussing my topic? -- Feel free to join this workshop if you would like to learn more about the communication infrastructures we are using and how we might use them more conveniently to reach our goals. Please bring along a topic on which you might want to start a networking process.

Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation":
Networking has become one of the essential techniques in scientific communication, but not in this field only. The workshop sets out to describe existing infrastructures. After this, participants are invited to exchange their experiences with these "tools". A focus will be placed on reflecting about how we are using the infrastructure and how, maybe, we want it changed to suit our purposes better. Which of these is to be called "standard", which is to be seen as "deviation"? This is precisely what is to be found out in the discussion. And: how ist the dynamics between those categories to be dealt with creatively in our everyday usage?

Addressed women: Please to contribute in English

Maximal number of participating women: 15

The Author:
I have been practising European Networking since 1992 when Liana Borghi, Florence, and I started the network "European Lesbian Studies" within the European Women's Studies Network WISE. I took the 10th anniversary of this network (www.sappho.net/wild) to start reflecting on the methods and the knowledge about networking in European contexts gathered since and took the chance to devise a workshop for the Queer Studies Conference in Warsaw in December 2002. On the basis of the interesting feedback I got, I am now offering such a workshop for the participants of FiNuT 2003.

About Some Ways To Change Gender Standards In Ukrainian Scientific Community

Olena Klyuchko, Vira Troyan, Nataly Taran

Lecture, Friday 11:00 - 12:30

As we showed by monitoring there is a noticeable prevalence of men on the highest administrative positions of science with simultaneous prevalence of women among students and lowest scientific positions in Ukrainian science. We would like to show some our measures aimed on the improving of this standard. One way is a work of our women in a "Small Academy of Science" for children who would like to devote their lives to the future work in science. Another way is a deeper implementation of modern electronic informational technologies among Ukrainian women. The use of computer technologies makes more easily and effective scientific and homework, helps women to solve some career and financial problems. We suggest some ways for further realization of computer education for our women, introducing of new informational methods into the women scientific community and would like to discuss all related questions in comparison with the world scientific women's community experience.

Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation":
Patriarchal society develop its standards with women? slight representation in main spheres of social life. Sphere of science is not a deviation from this standard. Difficulties in combining of family and scientific work as well as economical difficulties of family life in developing countries ? all this result great intellectual losses of societies. That is why the measures aimed on changes of this standard are important. Our experience evidences that these measures have to be realized by women by themselves.

The Authors:
We started to work under this theme from 1996, created NGO "Women in Science" (Kyiv). Members of organization have different degrees in science: Ph.D, Doctor of Sciences, among them there are scientists and teachers from different Universities and Research Institutes of National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine). We made connections between women - scientists that work with the youth, teach in Universities and work in Institutes of National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine). Women - members of our NGO investigate gender problems, women's role in history of science, write dissertational works in these spheres, develop educational courses, make questionnaire design for youth in gender sphere, develop information technologies, and simultaneously bring their children up. We organized 2 International Conferences "Women in science and education: past, present, future", already published picturesque calendars - "Women images in Ukrainian science"

Women, Power and Progress

Frances Grundy

Seminar, Friday 14:00 - 15:30

While there is evidence that there are increasing numbers of women entering some of the traditional sciences at undergraduate level, this increase has not followed through to later career stages. This stagnation prompts an analysis of what really are the goals of womens movements; do they have an ultimate shared goal? Indeed can they have a shared goal at all? One goal, not often articulated, was to give greater recognition and reward to essential female qualities like nurturing. The results of attempts to reward these "feminine" attributes are not promising. Not all women have them, and who is to say these are the best attributes anyway. Foucault was a proponent of the objections to essential qualities. I shall relate Foucaults ideas on power, discipline and normalisation to our lives in the scientific workplace. And I shall provide some contemporary examples of how his description of the technologies of power, discipline and normalisation do indeed appear to operate.

Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation":
A major part of my seminar will be on the way in which traditional scientific and technical communities react to women, for example, who do not conform to their collective idea of the "norm". I will discuss with participants how the processes of discipline and normalisation tend to work in a typical academic environment.

The Author:
I have worked on gender and technology for over 10 years and have been taking a special interest in Foucault for the past year. During this academic year I have given seminars at the T-U Wien on the relevance of Foucault's ideas on power and discourse to the position of women in technology today.

going beyond gender: thinking of issues of race and racism within computing

Seda Gürses

Workshop, Friday 16:00 - 17:30

feminist discourses on computing have produced wonderful critiques of the gendered inclusionary and exclusionary practices within computer science. With varying emphasis on practical and theoretical issues the science of computing has been and continues to be genderized by feminist scholars. Unfortunately, race or racist practices have so far not been a central concern of these discourses. In addition, the feminist discourse on computing has mostly remained limited to the white/european/anglo-american setting, unable to attract the participation and perspectives of immigrants and people of color.

Within the workshop I will provide the participants with two scenarios that make issues of race and gender visible within computing. We will then go on to discuss how mechanisms of race work within computing and within circles of feminist scientists. We will look into practies of objectivity, rationality, standards within the science of computing, and the language of critique within the feminist discourse. We will then look into developing strategies together for dealing with issues of race and gender.

Maximal number of participating women: 10

Gender Standards In Ukrainian Scientific Community

Vira Troyan, Olena Klyuchko, Nataly Taran

Lecture, Saturday 9:00 - 10:30

The Ukraine is undergoing a process of democratic reform and this allows us - NGO "Women in Science", Kiev - to investigate gender problems. We showed that we have 51% of women - students, 14-20% - Doctors of Sciences and only 4% - Academicians. A low percentage of women is observed among scientists, professors of National Kyiv University and National Technical University. A comparison of these data with those from countries of the EU, USA and Japan allows us to conclude that such data are close to standards for the scientific community in the whole world. We're aiming to improve this situation and we work on: an analysis of the reasons of women's low representation in science, gender monitoring of different branches in science and education, introduction of the gender equality idea into the gifted youth education, development of training programs and seminars for the increase of women in professional and social activity, establishing an information network, spreading the data concerning women's role in science progress.

Common aspects with the overall congress subject "standard:deviation":
Patriarchal society develops its standards with women: slight representation in main spheres of social life. The sphere of science is not a deviation from this standard. Difficulties in combining of family and scientific work as well as economical difficulties of family life in developing countries - all this results in great intellectual losses of societies. That is why the measures aimed on changes of this standard are important. Our experience evidences that these measures have to be realized by women by themselves.

The Authors:
We have worked under this theme from the time of creation of our NGO "Women in Science" (Kyiv) in 1996. The members of our organization have different degrees in science: Ph.D, Doctor of Sciences, among them there are scientists and teachers from different Universities and Research Institutes of National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine).

Personality Status and Scientific Knowledge

Valentyna Stakhnevych, Larysa Sklepova

Lecture, Saturday 11:00 - 12:30

Our country as all countries of the world has its own standards, installations, norms, etc., which strongly influence our perception of different branches of Science and Technology, the world and ourselves. Integration of sciences is directed to help people from different countries to push scientific technical progress not only in the own country but in the whole world. When we speak about scientific technical progress we can not touch upon the question - who defines norms, standards, installations etc. Naturally people - men and women. To-day progress of science depends also on status of a personality in society, understanding his or her position in it, norms and society installations and also myths concerning this or that member of the society. All of this is closely connected with the conception of gender.

The Conception of gender, gender stereotypes, gender equality, gender roles and other definitions are entered in the life of many countries. These definitions can be accepted by the country, people or some people differently. It depends on many factors: national mentality, level of development of this or that society, active position and erudition of this or that member of society - a man or a woman etc. We are trying in our activity to do some attempts to "wake up" young generation - students, graduate students and young scientists to take an active vital position in their own life and in science too. Some of our scientific data will be presented in the report.

The Authors:
Dr. Valentyna Stakhnevyc and Dr. Larysa Sklepova are the representatives of the National Agricultural University, Kiev, Ukraine. Professors and the leaders of the NGO association "Women in Agricultural Education" from 1997.