A historical and epistemological perspective of science and gender studies and their use in the science classroom

Abstract

In the decade of the 60’s of the last century and in line with the second wave of the feminism, the firsts studies based on science and gender appeared. These studies include several approaches which correlate the women presence on science, as scientists or as biologically or psychologically subjects to study, revealing a noticeable inequality between men and women from any approach. The study and the repercussion of this inequality have stablished a research field known as science and gender, whose analysis are becoming more influent in the science and teaching world.