Talin, K. et Paul-Antoine, A.-F. (2021). La représentation de la science est-elle genrée ? Étude auprès des étudiantes et étudiants inscrits en première année de filière scientifique à l’université de Lille. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 21(2), 456-474.
There are many studies about women in science. They reveal, among other findings, that men and women generally do not enroll in the same science streams. Going beyond this observation, it becomes relevant to examine representations of the sciences among male and female science students to determine what influences their choices. Our study is based on a survey among a representative sample of 1352 first-year science students at the University of Lille. Our results, both quantitative and qualitative, underscore the relevance of streams in the rationalization of these different representations of sciences, for one, and show that the correlation is not due to a gendered structure of the streams, for another. Indeed, there are significant differences in attitudes towards the sciences regardless of whether a student is male or female, but these attitudes are strongly correlated with the student’s chosen stream. It is therefore important to keep the influence of gender on representations of science in perspective.
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