Handling Risky Knowledge: Gender and Scientific Risk-taking moreJournal of Men’s Health and Gender 2:364-68; 2005.
Like the practice of clinical medicine, medical research and the knowledge it generates involve their own risks. This paper examines various societal and career risks of working with certain types of medical knowledge, and discusses empirical research on gender and risk-taking in science. It considers the questions this literature raises regarding decision-making about risky knowledge, as women increasingly enter new roles as researchers, consultants, regulators, and bureaucrats in science and medicine. In particular, it focuses on the relative hesitance of women scientists to take risks in their careers, and asks whether this predicts how they will handle risky knowledge as they enter new positions of decision-making authority in science and medicine. Limitations in existing data preclude firm predictions, but the paper sets out numerous questions for further study.
Keywords: Gender; risk-taking; scientific knowledge; medical research; policy-making |
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Sociology of Risk, Science, Technology and Society, Science And Technology Studies (Science And Technology Studies), Science Communication, Ethics, gender studies, women and minority in STEM fields, faculty diversity, pipeline issues, intersectionality between gender, race/ethnicity, and class, professional women, work life balance, mentoring, career progression in science and engineering, Gender, Research Ethics, Sociology of Knowledge, and Sociology of Science
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