This book is a bold, innovative examination of the factors behind the low representation of women in scientific disciplines and, more broadly, other competitive professional career tracks. A group of 25 women, from diverse backgrounds and representing a cross-section of points along the career continuum, provide a candid look at a scientific environment where women are routinely judged more by stereotype than ability and travel the road to success in isolation. The book provides strategies for negotiating through gender-specific boundaries and showcases two programs designed to support women in establishing successful scientific careers.
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Some impressive insights in this book. Particularly interesting are those of the undergraduate experiences of women in technical institutions, including young woman in male-dominated environment. I also think this book gives good insights to men in the scientific professions-- ie. how to keep the environment conducive to women and men alike.
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I strongly recommend this book! As the father of a young daughter, this well-written book was a real eye-opener. Pattatucci has a smooth writing style that makes it seem as if she is discussing the issues with you at your kitchen table over a cup of coffee. If you are a parent that is concerned about the education and future of your children, particularly your daughter(s), you should buy this book. It will show you what's on the horizon if you do nothing.
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science career track, high school component, young women scientists, junior mentors, college component, career derailment, women graduate students, postdoctoral research associates, research internships, undergraduate women, major advisor, female faculty member, women faculty, women engineers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stony Brook, Science Project, United States, Ohio State, North Carolina, Cold Spring Harbor, College of Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of Illinois, Indiana University, National Science Foundation, New York, Bryn Mawr, Chemistry Department, Dartmouth College, Society of Women Engineers, University of Kentucky, National Institutes of Health, New Hampshire, Nuclear Engineering Department, Professor Sokol, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Program, New Jersey New!
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science career track, high school component, young women scientists, junior mentors, college component, career derailment, women graduate students, postdoctoral research associates, research internships, undergraduate women, major advisor, female faculty member, women faculty, women engineers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stony Brook, Science Project, United States, Ohio State, North Carolina, Cold Spring Harbor, College of Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of Illinois, Indiana University, National Science Foundation, New York, Bryn Mawr, Chemistry Department, Dartmouth College, Society of Women Engineers, University of Kentucky, National Institutes of Health, New Hampshire, Nuclear Engineering Department, Professor Sokol, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Program, New Jersey New!
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- Second Sex (Everyman Classic Library) by Simone De Beauvoir on page 23, and page 50
- Emmy Noether: 1882-1935 by Auguste Dick on page 190, and Back Matter
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir on page 23, and page 50
- Emmy Noether by Dick Auguste on page 190, and Back Matter
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- Women And Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Science and Society) by Suzanne Le-May Sheffield on page 181, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Jill M. Bystydzienski on page 43, and Back Matter
- The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Journal of Lesbian Studies, 3) by Esther D Rothblum on page 13
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