Anomalies : pioneering women in petroleum geology : 1917-2017 / by Robbie Rice Gries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gries, Robbie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum geologists--Biography.

Petroleum geologists.

Women geologists--Biography.

Women geologists.

Genre:

collective biographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Pioneering women in petroleum geology, 1917-2017

Place of Publication:

Denver, CO : JeWel Publishing LLC, [2017]

Summary:

"Anomalies--Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology: 1917-2017 is a celebration of individual courage, tenacity, and professionalism as well as a timely reminder of our past, when male-dominated professions excluded women. The social structure outside this profession amplified the struggle for equality: the inability to vote, the dictate that women should not work outside the home when married, the pervasive practice of lower pay for equal work, the paucity of advancement opportunities, and the lack of recognition in companies and associations. Surprisingly, it spans a stretch of time virtually equal to the time span that men were finally being valued as petroleum geologists. The timeframe began with the period prior to WWI when even a male geologist was looked upon with disdain as having no useful purpose in the search for oil. As geologists gained acceptance, war intervened, creating a vacuum into which the female geology graduate stepped up to the challenge. The women described in Anomalies took the steppingstones necessary to gain respect and become leaders in their chosen field. They are celebrated herein."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Prologue: an exciting day for the first female petroleum geologist

World War I forces the oil industry to hire female geologists in 1917 00 The first women to be entrepreneurial geologists

Heavy minerals oil finder

Post WWI: Earliest women stilling wells

Julia Anna Gardner (1882-1960)

1920s to 1940s: the micropaleontology era

Earliest women geologists to enter geophysics: reflection seismic, the first discovery

Post WWI: notable early pioneering women

WWII: Women who joined the industry

WWII: Women who served their country in the military

Post WWII: Women in petroleum geology

Early affirmative action, diversity, and the oil business

Wellsite work

a part of the job

Dealing with the bad

Diverse career paths

opportunity favors the prepared

Management

rock stars

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781936499175

1936499096

OCLC:

983817177

Publisher Number:

99996843675