Breaking into the lab : engineering progress for women in science / Sue V. Rosser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosser, Sue Vilhauer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women scientists--United States.

Women scientists.

Sex discrimination in science--United States.

Sex discrimination in science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2012.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and the physical sciences. Rosser shows that these continuing trends are not only disappointing, they are urgent: the U.S. can no longer afford to lose the talents of the women scientists and engineers, because it is quickly losing its lead in science and technology. Ultimately, these biases and barriers may lock women out of the new scientific frontiers of innovation and technology transfer, resulting in loss of useful inventions and products to society.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction : why women in science are still controversial after thirty years

Starting careers : plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

Positive interventions from mentors and mentoring networks

New filters for senior women scientists

Advancing women scientists to senior leadership positions

The gender gap in patents

The impact that women have made on science and technology

Conclusion: women in science are critical for society

Appendix A: grants to support women scientists cited in this book

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780814771532

081477153X

9780814771525

0814771521

OCLC:

778459084