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Who's afraid of Marie Curie? : the challenges facing women in science and technology / Linley Erin Hall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Linley Erin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Vocational guidance.
- Science.
- Technology--Vocational guidance.
- Technology.
- Women in science.
- Women in technology.
- Women--Employment.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- In 2005, Harvard president Larry Summers sparked outrage by suggesting that women's low representation in the sciences was due to innate gender differences. Summers resigned and the media frenzy moved on, but how much do we still really know about the state of women's experience-and abilities-in science?
- Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? explores the opportunities and challenges facing women in science and technology, math and medicine, from grade school to grad school and beyond. Science writer Linley Hall's extensive research covers academia and industry, including scores of interviews that reveal the complex calculus or trying to balance personal lives with science careers. For teachers, parents, academics, and aspiring and experienced scientists alike, Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? is at once a call to action, a cautionary tale, and a message of hope, offering a crucial assessment of how far we've come, and how far we have to go.
- Contents:
- A different education : girls in the science classroom
- Nature, nurture : what's behind scientific ability?
- Competing clocks : struggling for balance in science careers
- Swimming upstream : bias against women in science
- A degree of BS : women in undergraduate science
- Doctor, post doctor : before and after the PhD
- A lab of her own : women scientists in academia
- Beyond the ivory tower : women scientists in industry and goverment
- The frontiers of medicine : women doctors
- Hanging up her lab coat : women leaving science
- Get 'em young : encouraging girls in science
- Welcoming women : improving science for all
- Appendix 1: So she wants to be a scientist : what now?
- Appendix 2: So you're a scientist : what now?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315).
- ISBN:
- 9781580052115
- 1580052118
- OCLC:
- 156811314
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