While recent national and European studies show an increasing female presence within technoscientific educational and professional paths such as physics, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer science (She Figures, 2016), inequalities between men and women within work practices and settings persist and are described by popular metaphors such as glass ceiling, leaky pipeline, sticky floor and glass cliff. On the other hand, a growing body of studies in STS and feminist technoscience studies (Suchman, 2006; Star, 1990; Lerman, Oldenziel, Mohun, 2003) has pointed out how technoscientific knowledge is engendered by and situated in specific sociomaterial contexts, which are gender biased, thus fostering processes of exclusion and marginalization. At the same time, several researches (Cockburn & Ormrod, 1993; Adam, 1998; Thompson, 2005) have traced how human and non-human actors articulate and disarticulate gender issues and boundaries among disciplines, organizations, practices, then generating transformations and diffractions (Haraway, 1997; Barad, 2007).

This session invites empirical, theoretical and/or methodological contributions that focus on these issues.

Abstracts (approx. 300 words) should be sent by May 30, 2016 to these three email addresses: conferences@stsitalia.org; mariacristina.sciannamblo@uniroma1.it; assunta.viteritti@uniroma1.it

Submission should include: author’s name and surname, institution and email address; title; abstract’s text.

Info on the conference: http://www.stsitalia.org/conferences/ocs/index.php/STSIC/STE