Women in Science: Meeting Career Challenges / Edition 1

by Angela M. Pattatucci

Overview

This book is a bold, innovative examination of the factors behind the low representation of women in scientific disciplines and, more broadly, other competitive professional career tracks. A group of 25 women, from diverse backgrounds and representing a cross-section of points along the career continuum, provide a candid look at a scientific environment where women are routinely judged more by stereotype than ability and travel the road to success in isolation. The book provides strategies for negotiating through gender-specific boundaries and showcases two programs designed to support women in establishing successful scientific careers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761900498
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/28/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Trespassers on Private Property - ángela M Pattatucci
As A Woman Thinketh... - ángela M Pattatucci
I Dared To Be Different - Jennifer M Cramer
Science and Women - Minna Mahlab
From the Vantage Point of a ‘Leak in the Pipeline'
Around and Around - Ann Saterbak
Is It Natural or Processed ‘Sugar and Spice' - ángela M Pattatucci
The Silver Lining - Katrien J van der Hoeven
Coming to Terms with Science - Beth Martin
A Woman's Story of Disillusionment
Women, Science and Self-Esteem - Kimberly Groat Olsen
Searching for a Needle in a Field of Haystacks - ángela M Pattatucci
The Roots of a Woman - Laura J Gaines
Piecewise Discontinuous Function - Marybeth Lima
Experiences in Engineering
Because I Did not Know I Was Different - Sue E Nokes
Just Where Is ‘Our Place'? - ángela M Pattatucci
The Making of an Honorary Male - Janet Vorvick
Being a Scientist - Laurie Tompkins
One Woman's Experience
One Woman's Life in Science - Suzanne E Franks
Dogs Eating Dogs and Science Devouring Women - ángela M Pattatucci
My First Experience as a Woman Scientist - Nina Wokhlu
Cutting Loose - Susan S Allen
Putting It on the Table - Patricia L Eng
Journey to a Career in Science - Denise Gürer
Female Impersonators and Honorary Males - ángela M Pattatucci
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Now? - Angela Rella
Feminist/Scientist - Donna Riley
Ambiguities and Contradictions
Feminism - Noretta Koertge
A Mixed Blessing to Women in Science
Abolishing Gender Apartheid - ángela M Pattatucci
The Glass Wall - Molly Gleiser
Project WISE - Wendy Katkin
A Community of Wise Women
A Reason for Optimism - ángela M Pattatucci
The Women in Science Project at Dartmouth - Carol B Muller and Mary L Pavone
One Campus Model for Support and Systemic Change
From Eden to the Seashore - Michele Montejo
‘Oh, the Places You'll Go ...' - Natalie M Bachir

Editorial Reviews

Although women have made great advances in a wide variety of careers, the fields of science remains mainly bastion of men. Twenty-five articles examine the challenges facing women's participation in the sciences and offer strategies to overcome those strategies. Contributors were asked simply to write about their experiences as women in science; in so doing, they touch on such topics as self-esteem problems, disillusionment, models for support, the ambiguities of being both a scientist and a feminist, and other topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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