Women of color in STEM : navigating the workforce / / edited by Julia Ballenger, Barbara Polnick, Beverly Irby
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Women of color in STEM : navigating the workforce / / edited by Julia Ballenger, Barbara Polnick, Beverly Irby
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlotte, North Carolina : , : Information Age Publishing Inc., , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina: | 305.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women |
| Women - History - 20th century | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | BallengerJulia |
| PolnickBarbara | |
| IrbyBeverly | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ; Foreword -- ; Introduction -- ; Part I. Women of color in STEM : resilience and opportunity. What Plato took for granted : an examination of the first five African female mathematicians and what that says about resistance to the western epistemological canon / Nicole M. Joseph -- Women of color in the STEM academic workplace / Lindsay Johnson, Kecia M. Thomas, and Lindsay Brown -- Breaking barriers : inspiring stories about NASA women of color / Lisa Brown, Andrea Foster, and Barbara Polnick -- Mathematics literacy, identity resilience, and opportunity sixty years since Brown v. Board : counternarratives of a five-generation family / Jacqueline Leonard, Erica N. Walker, and Nicole M. Joseph -- ; Part II. Women of color in STEM : stories of struggles and success. The fulfillment of a mother's dream : an African woman's story of struggle and success in science / Cailisha L. Petty and Catherin Dinitra White -- Navigating the STEM landscape : examining the role of spatial reasoning for women of color / Samina Hadi-Tabassum -- Diversity in STEM? : challenges influencing the experiences of African American female engineers / Delores Rice -- Present but not accounted for : examining how intersectional identities create a double bind for and affect leadership of women of color in educational settings / Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, Danielle D. Dickens, Gabe H. Miller, and Carla A. Zimmerman. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women of color in STEM |
| ISBN: | 1-68123-708-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792688603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Research on women and education.