Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY FOR A POST-TRUTH AGE, ss.259-279, 2024 (SSCI)
STS has received contributions from feminist scholars who have identified men's monopoly of technology as an important source of their place in the social and academic hierarchy. This approach takes gender relations as an integral constituent of the higher education institutions and projects from which technologies and scientific knowledge emerge. In the post-truth era, knowledge claims about gender tend to be different versions of debates of anti-feminism, which seek to delegitimize the knowledge produced and disseminated by feminist scholars and movements while also trying to establish an alternative set of purposefully selected legitimized truth about gender. This paper situates current discussions in STS, of women's position in STEM departments in (Lund University and Middle East Technical University (METU) in the wider context of post-truth rhetoric on gender. It aims to explore how gender-specific debates are conceived, questioned, and justified in two contexts while at the same time trying to understand the material and symbolic manifestations of gender dynamics of two institutions in relation to deep-rooted traditions in STEM departments. Findings highlight that organizational structures within faculties need to be reinterpreted by looking at post-truth claims, especially for STEM departments where the ratio of female participation and LGBTIQ+ representation is relatively low.