Why aren't women sticking with science in Taiwan?

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Cheng, Ling Fang ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Careers; Gender; Leaky pipeline; Masculinity; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

CAREER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENDER; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TAIWAN; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; LITERATURE; MANPOWER; MEDICINE; SCIENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WORK;

CAREER CHOICE; MEDICINE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SCIENCE; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TAIWAN; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WORK;

EID: 79960648130     PISSN: 1607551X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1607-551X(10)70055-3     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Alper J. The pipeline is leaking women all the way along. Science 1993;260:409-11.
2. Pell AN. Fixing the leaky pipeline: women scientists in academia. J Anim Sci 1996;74:2843-8. (Pubitemid 126428555)
3. European Commission. Women and Science: Creating Sustainable Careers 2009. Available at: http://ec.europa. eu/research/science-society/document- library/ pdf-06/wist2-sustainable-careers-report-en.pdf [Date accessed: February 4, 2010]
4. Goulden M, Frasch K, Mason MA, et al. Staying Competi-tive: Patching Americas Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences. Available at http://www. americanprogress.org/issues/2009/11/pdf/women-and-sciences.pdf [Date accessed: January 21, 2010]
5. The Ministry of Education, Taiwan. http://www.edu.tw/ statistics/content.aspx?site-content-sn=%2021549 [Date accessed: Feburary 1, 2010]
6. International Conference on Woman Scientists 2008. Available at http://issue.ym.edu.tw/cia/ws/tw/ [Date accessed February 5, 2010]
7. The Second International Conference on Woman Scien-tists 2009. Available at http://www.womanscientists. net/index.php [Date accessed February 5, 2010]
8. Blickenstaff JC. Women and science careers: leaky pipe-line or gender filter? Gend Educ 2005;17:369-86. (Pubitemid 41126523)
9. Sonnert G, Holton G. Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
10. Sonnert G, Holton GJ. Who Succeeds in Science? The gender dimension. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
11. Rogers L. Sexing the Brain. New York: Columbia Univer-sity Press, 2000
12. National Academy of Sciences. Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. Washington: National Academies Press, 2006.
13. Harding S. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991.
14. Harding S. Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998
15. The monthly newsletter of 'Taiwanese Female Scientists and Technologists', 2008-2010. Available at http:// www2.tku.edu.tw/~tfst/ [Date accessed: Feburary 5, 2010].
16. Cheng LF. En/Gendering Doctors: Gender Relations in the Medical Profession in Taiwan 1945-1995. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Sociology, University of Essex, 1998.
17. Faulker W. The technology question in feminism: A view from feminist technology studies. Women's Stud Int Forum 2001;24:79-95.
18. Riska E. Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas: American, Scandinavian, and Russian Women Physicians. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 2001.
19. rd edition. Open University Press, 2007:173-246.
20. Greenhalgh S. Sexual stratification: the other side of "Growth with equity". East Asia, Popul Dev Rev 1985; 11:265-314.
21. Lin H. Ethnicity and Gender in Postwar Taiwan: An Analysis of Stratification and Life Chances. PhD Dissertation. Univer-sity of California, Davis, 1995.
22. Lin CJ. Identity differences among women in patrilineal families: a cross-generational comparison of the division of domestic labor of middle-class working women. Taiwan: Radical Q Soc Stud 2007;68:1-75.
23. Parish WL, Willis RJ. Daughters. Education and family budgets: Taiwan experiences. J Hum Resour 1993;28: 863-98. (Pubitemid 24389837)
24. Holmes MA, O'Connell S. Leaks in the pipeline: Why do women remain curiously absent from the ranks of academia? Nature 2007;446:346.
25. Lan PC Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
26. Connell RW, Messerschmidt JW. Hegemonic masculin-ity: rethinking the concept. Gend Soc 2005;19:829-59.
27. Brainard SG, Carlin L. A six-year longitudinal study of undergraduate women in engineering and science. J Eng Educ 1998;87:17-27.
28. Han, Tsai-yan. Gendered Laboratory: Masculinity and Scientific Practice. Unpublished masters dissertation, Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University 2009.
29. National Science Council. Available at: http://web1. nsc.gov.tw/ [Date accessed: January 27, 2010]
30. Gender Equality of Employment Act, revised version 2008. Available at: http://law.moj.gov.tw/LawClass/ LawAll.aspx?PCode=N0030015 [Date accessed: January 27, 2010]
31. Bornmann L. Bias Cut: women, it seems, often get a raw deal in science\-so how can discrimination be tackled? Nature 2007;445:566.