Breaking into the Lab : Engineering Progress for Women in Science / Sue V. Rosser.
Rosser, Sue V., author.
2012
Q130 .R674 2012
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Title
Breaking into the Lab : Engineering Progress for Women in Science / Sue V. Rosser.
Author
Rosser, Sue V., author.
ISBN
9780814771525
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814776452.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814776452.001.0001 doi
Call Number
Q130 .R674 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
500.820973
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Starting Careers
3. Positive Interventions from Mentors and Mentoring Networks
4. New Filters for Senior Women Scientists
5. Advancing Women Scientists to Senior Leadership Positions
6. The Gender Gap in Patents
7. The Impact That Women Have Made on Science and Technology
8. Conclusion
Appendix A
References
Index
About the Author

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