ABSTRACT
Within the last two decades, feminist scholars have critiqued social and cultural views of science and technology that assign so-called masculine traits to the subjects or agents of scientific study and feminine traits to objects of that study. In addition, these scholars have questioned objectivity within the scientific method not only by examining the gender stereotypes that link objectivity to masculinity but also by applying the work of social theorists such as Kuhn (1970) who reveal the subjective nature of scientific communities. At the same time, feminist scholars have described the learning and decision-making style that many women assume within their social gender roles, a style that was once dismissed as immature but is now recognized by many as legitimately different.
