Appelhans, S. (2022, August), The Efficiency-Inclusion Dilemma: Reproducing Dominance Hierarchies through Efficiency Logics in Semiconductor Engineering  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41741

\bibitem{asee_peer_41741}
  Appelhans, S. (2022, August), \emph{The Efficiency-Inclusion Dilemma: Reproducing Dominance Hierarchies through Efficiency Logics in Semiconductor Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--41741

Sarah Appelhans.  "The Efficiency-Inclusion Dilemma: Reproducing Dominance Hierarchies through Efficiency Logics in Semiconductor Engineering".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/41741 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_41741}
  Sarah Appelhans.
  "The Efficiency-Inclusion Dilemma: Reproducing Dominance Hierarchies through Efficiency Logics in Semiconductor Engineering".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/41741 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This study explores the relationship between inclusion and efficiency in engineering culture. Prior research has indicated that the masculine-dominant and exclusionary cultures within engineering have contributed to attrition of women and minorities from the field. In particular, cultural values such as rigor and meritocracy are mechanisms through which the discipline remains predominantly white and male. In this paper, drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork amongst engineers in the semiconductor industry, I suggest that another such mechanism is the cultural value of efficiency. Productivity and efficiency are mindsets cultivated in contemporary workplaces that justify and enable the pursuit of narrow self-interest by offloading work that is culturally determined to be “unimportant” or “nonurgent”. Engineers, with their disciplinary preference to simplify, narrow, and streamline processes, are particularly persuadable by efficiency logics. Inclusion work, however, demands a relationship of care that is undermined by the individualist logic of efficiency, contributing to women’s and minorities’ experiences of isolation and nonbelonging in the discipline. In order to improve women and minorities’ experiences in engineering, I argue that we must reimagine workplace efficiency to include actions of care as necessary and important elements of an inclusive engineering culture.
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