1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824215403321

Autore

Rosser Sue Vilhauer

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2012

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

©2012

ISBN

9780814771532

081477153X

9780814771525

0814771521

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Classificazione

MS 3050

Disciplina

500.82/0973

Soggetti

Women scientists - United States

Sex discrimination in science - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910364959903321

Titolo

Anales de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de la Universidad de la Plata

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Buenos Aires, : Universidad Nacional de la Plata, 1926-

ISSN

2591-6386

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Law - Argentina

Law

Periodicals.

Argentina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Imprint varies.