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The Subjection of Women in Science and Technology
Henry Etzkowitz
International Triple Helix Institutewww.triplehelix.net
Visiting ProfessorBirkbeck, University of London
Quandam Faculty Fellow,Clayman Institute of Gender Research, Stanford University
Source: San Francisco Chronicle 15 March, 2015
Subjection of Women,
1869 John Stuart Mill and Harriet
Taylor: Overt and Covert co-authors
Two Silicon Valleys
• Low participation of women in high tech and venture capital firms
• Brought to light by studies publicized in media • Some firms commit to improve
• Unequal terms of participation• Ellen Pao’s discrimination lawsuit against
iconic venture capital firm
Academic Rape• Women’s accomplishments may be poached
with impunity• Classic case: Rosalind Franklin’s DNA
crystallographic photographs secretly viewed• Contemporary: UK Dean bullying charge
against female faculty member “you haven’t learned your lesson”
• Columbia Computer Science Faculty Member/Female grad student: degree/patent choice
• Tip of Iceberg or anomalous instances? • Structured Gendered Inequality vs Scientific
Universalism• Gender damage• More widespread than predicted by
Mertonian norms• Self policing inadequate; formal damage
controls necessary
Scientific Fraud Redux?
Solutions
• Fix the Women• Fix the Men• Fix the Knowledge• Fix the System
Fix the Women
• Lean In Cheryl SandBerg
• Double Bind: Bateson
Fix the Men
• NSF Advance Workshops for Department Chairs and Faculty: typical proposal element
• Feminist Therapist turned around department chair – Athena Unbound instance
Fix the Knowledge
• Gendered Innovation Project: Londa Schiebinger Stanford/EU supported
• E.g. Framingham Heart Study
• 3 Routledge volumes
Fix the System
• US Discrimination Lawsuits• UK Funding Tied to Gender Equity• Sweden Quotas• StartX Gender Blind Accelerator Vs Stanford
Fraternity regime
30 Years Added to Lifespan
• Implications for Work/Life Balance• Life Cycle Vs Life Spiral models
a 1978 tinker-toys-and-yarn representation of the Life Spiral model of adulthood as a non-linear process