Mellem kunstig befrugtning og naturlig intelligens - om skiftende betydninger af køn og kvalitet

Resumé

The article analyses two recent debates in the Danish parliament which both focussed on the sighificance of gender. One dealt with the idea that the government should earmark forty professorships for women since the percentage of women professors remains extremely low (6%). The proposal was met with strong objections mainly arguing that quality and gender are not related. The second debate evolved around the Bill on assisted reproduction. In contrast, gender and quality were here articulated as two sides of the same coin. Only women in a steady relationship with a man were allowed medical assistance with insemination, etc. In confronting the two debated, we deconstruct the phallogecentrism that are embedded in the discourses of the majority of debaters.