The Quantitative/Qualitative Debate and Feminist Research: A Subjective View of Objectivity
Research methods are "technique(s) for.gathering data" (HARDING 1986) and are generally dichotomised into being either quantitative or qualitative.It has been argued that methodology has been gendered (OAKLEY 1997; 1998), with quantitative methods traditionally being associated with words such as positivism, scientific, objectivity, statistics and