Removing barriers women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Bystydzienski, Jill M., 1949-, Bird, Sharon R., 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sustaining Gains: Reflections on Women in Science and Technology in the Twentieth- Century United States / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
  • From "Engineeresses" to "Girl Engineers" to "Good Engineers": A History of Women's U.S. Engineering Education / Amy Sue Bix
  • Using POWRE to ADVANCE: Institutional Barriers Identified by Women Scientists and Engineers / Sue V. Rosser
  • Telling Stories about Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity / Cynthia Burack and Suzanne E. Franks
  • The Gender Gap in Information Technology / Mo-Yin S. Tam and Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr.
  • African American Women in Science: Experiences from High School through the Post- secondary Years and Beyond / Sandra L. Hanson
  • African Women Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Sciences: Racism, Gender Bias, and Third World Marginality / Josephine Beoku-Betts
  • Gendered Experiences in the Science Classroom / Molly J. Dingel
  • The Construction of Sexual Bimorphism and Heterosexuality in the Animal Kingdom / Kirsten Smilla Ebeling
  • Feminism and Science: Mechanism without Reductionism / Carla Fehr
  • Across the Language Barrier: Gender in Plant Biology and Feminist Theory / Dana A. Dudle and Meryl Altman
  • The Graduate Experience of Women in STEM and How It Could Be Improved / Anne J. MacLachlan
  • How Can Women and Students of Color Come to Belong in Graduate Mathematics? / Abbe H. Herzig
  • Designing Gender-Sensitive Computer Games to Close the Gender Gap in Technology / Anna M. Martinson
  • Making Sense of Retention: An Examination of Undergraduate Women's Participation in Physics Courses / Heidi Fencl and Karen R. Scheel
  • Creating Academic Career Opportunities for Women in Science: Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges / Neal B. Abraham
  • Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia / Virginia Valian.