Gender and Engineering: Strategies and Possibilities

The Editors: Ingelore Welpe is a psychologist, anthropologist and gender researcher. She is executive director of the Institute for Women's Research and Gender Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Kiel. Her international applied research and teaching activities are in the area of gender in organisations, gender in the value chain in medicine, and gender analyses of HIV risk and prevention programmes in Southern Africa. Barbara Reschka is sociologist, social anthropologist and certified public relations consultant at the Institute for Women's Research and Gender Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Kiel. Her research focus is on women in technical professions and gender in engineering curricula. June Larkin is director of Equity Studies and undergraduate coordinator of Women and Gender Studies, St. George Campus, University of Toronto. She has a doctorate in community psychology from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), with a focus in feminist studies. She is the author of numerous articles on gender violence, gender equity and gender, youth and HIV prevention.