The role of women in STEM disciplines. A multimodal analysis of crowdfunding project videos for the iGEM science competition.

IF 0.3 Q4 SOCIOLOGY
Ana Cristina Vivas- Peraza
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The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a matter of growing social concern: although the female presence in these disciplines has grown during the last decades, men still outnumber women (Corbett & Hill, 2015). It has been shown that this is partly because of the lack of visibility that the work of women scientists has had along history, which has led to unconscious beliefs and stereotypes about gender and professional careers, and therefore, the disinterest in science on the female side (Nimmesgern, 2016). Previous research has shown that these stereotypes are reinforced through television programs depicting fictional women characters in STEM scenarios (Steinke, 2017; Davis & Coleman, 2018), and the present study aims to explore the representation of real female and male scientists on the Internet. By applying a multimodal analysis from a social semiotic perspective, I examine how gender identities are represented in eight crowdfunding project videos of science created by undergraduate students for an international science competition, the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM). Relying on the Swalesian move-step analysis genre approach for the verbal content (Swales, 1990, 2004), and Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Grammar (VG) model for the visual content (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006), the analysis intends to uncover ideological purposes and meanings about gender roles within a context of scientific research. The results are compatible with previous studies that confirm that women are underrepresented in STEM, highlighting the ideologies that lead to the reinforcement of gender bias at the scientific workplace.
女性在STEM学科中的作用。iGEM科学竞赛众筹项目视频的多模态分析。
科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域的性别差距是一个日益引起社会关注的问题:尽管在过去几十年中,女性在这些学科中的比例有所增加,但男性人数仍然超过女性(Corbett&Hill,2015)。研究表明,这在一定程度上是因为女性科学家的工作在历史上缺乏知名度,这导致了对性别和职业生涯的无意识信念和刻板印象,因此女性对科学不感兴趣(Nimmesgern,2016)。先前的研究表明,这些刻板印象通过电视节目在STEM场景中描绘虚构的女性角色而得到强化(Steinke,2017;Davis和Coleman,2018),本研究旨在探索真实的女性和男性科学家在互联网上的表现。通过从社会符号学的角度应用多模态分析,我研究了本科生为国际科学竞赛国际基因工程机器(iGEM)创作的八个科学众筹项目视频中性别身份是如何表现的。基于Swalesian对言语内容的动步分析流派方法(Swales,19902004),以及Kress和van Leeuwen对视觉内容的视觉语法(VG)模型(Kress和van Leeuwen,2006),该分析旨在揭示科学研究背景下关于性别角色的意识形态目的和意义。这一结果与之前的研究一致,这些研究证实了女性在STEM中的代表性不足,突出了导致科学工作场所性别偏见加剧的意识形态。
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