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Ulrika Sultan; Cecilia Axell; Jonas Hallström – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Bringing more girls and women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, is often highlighted as an aim in education and industry. A constantly growing body of research on engagement is driven by equity concerns caused by the unbalanced gender distribution in STEM. In this study, Swedish teenage girls on a three-day technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Camps
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Salminen-Karlsson, Minna – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This article describes the Swedish initiative of municipal technology centres from a gender point of view. These centres provide after-school technology education for children aged 6-16. By means of an ethnographic study, the effects of the use of single-sex groups in increasing the interest of girls and boys in technical activities have been…
Descriptors: Females, Technology Education, Sexual Identity, Masculinity