Perceptions About Women in Science and Engineering History
Heidi Reeder Communication Seung Youn Chyung Organizational Performance & Workplace Learning Lynn Lubamersky History Pat Pyke STEM Station Cheryl Schrader Chancellor, Missouri S&T Leslie Madsen-Brooks History Janelle Brown EXPLORE Magazine Thanks to Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs for funding. BACKGROUND: For at least forty years, women’s history scholars have investigated who is responsible for advances in science and technology. Their findings have dismantled assumptions that have excluded women’s scientific contributions. While the role of women in the history of science has been recovered, it is uncertain whether this information has made its way into the classroom and into cultural consciousness.
Panel Discussion - Off the Record: Untold Stories of Women, Science and Engineering
Women throughout history have made groundbreaking contributions to the advancement of science and technology, yet many of their stories remain unknown outside of some academic circles. This session comprises a reading of a work-in-progress and subsequent panel discussion as part of an innovative project to bring some of these amazing stories to the stage. We will present dramatic readings of selected draft monologues which will be followed by a panel discussion spurred by questions from audience members. This will allow for a true give and take between the readers and the audience, will inform monologue development and effectiveness, and will address questions arising from participation in this experience. Our ultimate goal is to write a play featuring monologues about individual women scientists that may be performed in various venues by independent groups and that would be developed as part of a larger funded research project. By presenting stories about these women’s accomplishments in a dramatic and accessible form, we hope to educate, enlighten and inspire.
Industrial Relations in 1988
Undoubtedly, the election of the Hawke Labor Government in 1983 marked a turning point in Australian industrial relations. To a large extent industrial turbulence receded, helped along by global econ omic instability and the influence ofthe Prices and Incomes Accord between the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU). Arguably, the apparent success of the Accord owed something to a widespread concern within unions that the election of a Liberal-National Party government at the federal level would have resulted in a major pro gram of economic regulation, especially in relation to the institutions ofthe labour market. During 1988, despite an increasingly buoyant economy, the continuing influence of these economic and political conditions ensured that the level of industrial disputation remained subdued by historical stan dards, though those opposed to the nascent corporate state or centralised wage fixing may have been heartened by signs that wage restraint was fraying at the...