Women in global science : advancing academic careers through international collaboration / Kathrin Zippel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zippel, Kathrin S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women scientists--United States.

Women scientists.

Career development--United States.

Career development.

Women in science--United States.

Women in science.

Science--International cooperation.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. Women in Global Science is the first book to consider systematically the challenges and opportunities that the globalization of scientific work brings to U.S. academics, especially for women faculty. Kathrin Zippel looks to the STEM fields as a case study, where gendered cultures and structures in academia have contributed to an underrepresentation of women. While some have approached underrepresentation as a national concern with a national solution, Zippel highlights how gender relations are reconfigured in global academia. For U.S. women in particular, international collaboration offers opportunities to step outside of exclusionary networks at home. International collaboration is not the panacea to gendered inequalities in academia, but, as Zippel argues, international considerations can be key to ending the steady attrition of women in STEM fields and developing a more inclusive academic world.

Contents:

A world of opportunity : science, gender, and collaboration

Traveling abroad, coming home : ambivalent discourses on the U.S. role in global science

The .edu bonus : gender, academic nationality, and status

Glass fences : gendered organization of global academia

Families and international mobility : fences or opportunities?

Toward an inclusive world of (global) academia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503601505

1503601501

OCLC:

952700993