New Concentration in Women, Science, Technology, and Society (WSTS)

-- administered by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Conceptually and historically, women have been excluded from the institutions and practices of Western science. The concentration in Women, Science, Technology, and Society uses the categories of sex and gender to analyze the complex interrelationships and of science, technology, and society, the social basis of the development of science, and the organization of society itself. Students investigate the varieties of women's experience in areas such as the natural and built environments, health and medicine, social and educational institutions, reproductive technologies, and the workplace.