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Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World since 1972 (Volume 3) Paperback – April 2, 2012

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The third volume of Margaret W. Rossiter’s landmark survey of the history of American women scientists focuses on their pioneering efforts and contributions from 1972 to the present. Central to this story are the struggles and successes of women scientists in the era of affirmative action. Scores of previously isolated women scientists were suddenly energized to do things they had rarely, if ever, done before―form organizations and recruit new members, start rosters and projects, put out newsletters, confront authorities, and even fight (and win) lawsuits. Rossiter follows the major activities of these groups in several fields―from engineering to the physical, biological, and social sciences―and their campaigns to raise consciousness, see legislation enforced, lobby for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and serve as watchdogs of the media. This comprehensive volume also covers the changing employment circumstances in the federal government, academia, industry, and the nonprofit sector and discusses contemporary battles to increase the number of women members of the National Academy of Science and women presidents of scientific societies.

In writing this book, Rossiter mined nearly one hundred previously unexamined archival collections and more than fifty oral histories. With the thoroughness and resourcefulness that characterize the earlier volumes, she recounts the rich history of the courageous and resolute women determined to realize their scientific ambitions.

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Rossiter gives the foundation, on the basis of which it is possible for other scholars to ask and answer such questions. Nor does she discuss in her books, what feminism is and other theoretical questions. Her style of work is very meticulous and scholarly, as she digs up all the names and all the facts, and she is a very knowledgeable historian and a skilled and sophisticated statistician. Her last mentioned quality is of course of special value to us mathematicians.
―Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter

Rossiter's extraordinarily detailed account offers compelling data alongside the multiple stories of individual women, both those thwarted by discrimination and those who emerged as outstanding success stories . . . This book should be read by skeptics who don't believe that there is persisting prejudice. It also provides inspiration and ideas for those who relish the stories of women who now deservedly do make history.
―Georgina M. Montgomery, Science

Rossiter has performed a herculean task, gathering and synthesizing an abundance of information into a narrative that shows both the positive developments that have taken place since 1972 and the many challenges that remain.
―Arleen Marcia Tuchman, American Historical Review

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What we have here is a remarkable example of historian as detective . . . The attention Rossiter gives to identifying individuals and the details she provides about marriage, barriers, . . . underrecognition, disappointments, and―yes―real accomplishments and rewards breathe life into her frequently poignant account.
―Science

Highly readable and exquisitely informative. Rossiter's documentation of this gloomy chapter in the history of women striving to make a place for themselves in science serves as a pungent antidote for questions concerning the fairness of affirmative action.
―Journal of American History

Offering valuable information on women scientists and suggesting additional research opportunities, Rossiter's second volume stands as a significant contribution to both women's history and the history of American science.
―American Historical Review

A full, complex picture of the marginalization of American women scientists in this era . . . I recommend this book to anyone involved in science: the questions about the sexual politics of science it tackles and provokes are too important to be ignored.
―New Scientist

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (April 2, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1421403633
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421403632
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.07 x 9.25 inches

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K. Davis

Pioneering Scholarly Research Volume 3

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In volume 2 of her Women Scientists in America trilogy, Margaret Rossiter described how women scientists began to write and speak about discrimination in the late 1960's (after the publication of the Feminine Mystique and the founding of the National Organization for Women). In her final volume she describes what women scientists did to move towards equal opportunity. She writes about the formation of interest groups, the development of STEM outreach activities for women and girls, and the bringing of lawsuits in a time of affirmative action and increases in the numbers of women earning STEM degrees and pursuing STEM careers.

All three volumes were carefully researched and written. Unlike the first two volumes, this volume provides context for current women scientists. It can help them understand how their own career development has been affected by what has happened in American society and how they might continue to work towards equal opportunity.

The audience for the Women Scientists in America books is probably limited to those with a scholarly interest in the history of science and women's studies and those with a personal interest in women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For that audience, Margaret Rossiter's books provide information and analysis that is not available anywhere else.

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Marie M. Roth

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Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2012

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The third book in a series by Nargaret Rossiter follows a format similar to that in the earlier volumes. The information covers all the sciences well and is well documented and indexed. I found it to be an excellent history of the era.

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Imagardener

great series

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2013

Dear Publisher (hope you are reading this)

This series is a gem for girls and women who want to know more about women in Science.
But I have a criticism--could you please use a color photograph(s) on the cover?
Women of the 21st Century are winning Nobel Prizes in Science but everything printed looks like they stopped back in the 1960's because you use black and white photographs.
Young girls (who need this inspiration) need to see COLOR and photographs that look like they are not ancient (meaning 1960's)

I've made exhibits for girls and have found color photographs of these amazing scientists on the internet. Surely you have access to color photographs also (at least for the cover for Pete's sake).

Please keep up the good work but jazz it up a little to appeal to a younger audience. Black and white makes the women look like they are all dead and gone. There are many women scientists alive and winning Nobel Prizes. Can we see them on the cover?

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