Londa Schiebinger

Londa Schiebinger
Londa Schiebinger presenting the Gendered Innovations Project at the European Parliament.
Born	(1952-05-13)May 13, 1952
Institutions	EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	Women and the origins of modern science (1984)
Spouse	Robert Proctor
Children	Geoffrey Schiebinger and Jonathan Proctor

Londa Schiebinger (born May 13, 1952) is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University and a leading international authority on gender and science. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. She is currently Director of EU/US Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project.

From 2004-2010, Schiebinger served as the Director of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. In 2010 and 2014, Schiebinger presented the keynote address and wrote the conceptual background paper for the United Nations' Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science, and Technology. In 2013 she presented the Gendered Innovations project at the European Parliament. She is known for her writings on the impacts of feminism in the fields of science.

Has Feminism Changed Science?
Schiebinger's book, Has Feminism Changed Science?, has been split into three sections: 'Women in Science', 'Gender in the Cultures of Science', and 'Gender in the Substance of Science'. Throughout the book, she describes the factors that led to the inequality between male and female in the science field. In addition, she gave examples of different types of women in the society. An important idea brought up in the book was the private versus the public, where the private sphere is seen as the domain of women and public sphere as an area refers for men. Another important point she brought up was that the idea of including women in the fields of science does not mean that the sciences will adopt a more feminist view point. A simple increase in the number of women in a given field does not change the culture of that field. The construction of gender and science is a cycle in that ideas of gender are brought to the table already when practicing science and can inform what evidence people look for or areas they choose to study, and that whatever is found then influences theories of gender. The various contradictions shown through the achievements and silencing of women in science throughout history shows how nature and the society can influence gender and science. Schiebinger not only addresses the gender in the context of science, she also describes the feminism is changed through the history and culture. It is important to note that the book is written from a Western perspective and that the culture she discusses is that of the Western World, and in many cases, more specifically, the United States.