Women's science : learning and succeeding from the margins
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Women's science : learning and succeeding from the margins
University of Chicago Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index
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ISBN 9780226195445
Description
Offering a dramatic counterpoint to the findings that from elementary school through to college, women's interest in science steadily declines, and that "real science" only occurs in research and laboratory investigation, this text describes women engaged with science or engineering at the margins. In an innovative high school genetics class, a school-to-work internship for prospective engineers, an environmental action group and a nonprofit conservation agency, the authors found a high proportion of women who were successful at learning and using technical knowledge, and advancing in equal percentages to men. This text explores how women still had to pay a price, working outside traditional laboratories, receiving less financial compensation and little public prestige, unless they acted like male professionals.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins Pt. 1: The Gendered Landscape of Science and Engineering 1: Women (Still) Need Not Apply 2: In the "Heretical Sectors": Where the Women Are Pt. 2: Practice on the Margins: Getting In, Doing Well, and Gaining Power 3: Learning Science in an Innovative Genetics Course 4: Learning to Be an Engineer 5: Science and Politics in an Environmental Action Group 6: Science and Scientists in a Conservation Corporation Pt. 3: Discourses and Struggles 7: Women's Status and the Discourse of Gender Neutrality at Work 8: In the Presence of Women's Power: Women's Struggle at Work 9: Situated Science, the Presence of Women, and the Practices of Work and School Notes References Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226195452
Description
Offering a dramatic counterpoint to the findings that from elementary school through to college, women's interest in science steadily declines, and that "real science" only occurs in research and laboratory investigation, this text describes women engaged with science or engineering at the margins. In an innovative high school genetics class, a school-to-work internship for prospective engineers, an environmental action group and a nonprofit conservation agency, the authors found a high proportion of women who were successful at learning and using technical knowledge, and advancing in equal percentages to men. This text explores how women still had to pay a price, working outside traditional laboratories, receiving less financial compensation and little public prestige, unless they acted like male professionals.
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