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During the second half of the twentieth century, there has developed a greater willingness to admit that neither gender nor science is absolute or given. Increasingly, both are acknowledged to be social constructs, heavily dependent on cultural contexts, power relationships, value systems, ideological dogma and human emotional needs. A number of writers (e.g., Easlea, 1981 ; Keller, 1985) have argued that gender is bound up inextricably in the development and practice of science. What is clear to educationists is that interactions between gender and science result in the alienation of women and girls from science, especially from the physical sciences and, in particular, from physics.
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Harding, J. (1996). Science in a Masculine Strait-Jacket. In: Parker, L.H., Rennie, L.J., Fraser, B.J. (eds) Gender, Science and Mathematics. Science & Technology Education Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0143-1_1
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