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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Jill M. Bystydzienski and Sharon R. Bird Part I. History of Women in STEM Fields 1. Sustaining Gains: Reflections on Women in Science and Technology in the Twentieth- Century United States Sally Gregory Kohlstedt 2. From "Engineeresses" to "Girl Engineers" to "Good Engineers": A History of Women's U.S. Engineering Education Amy Sue Bix Part II. Institutional and Cultural Barriers for Women in STEM 3. Using POWRE to ADVANCE: Institutional Barriers Identified by Women Scientists and Engineers Sue V. Rosser 4. Telling Stories about Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity Cynthia Burack and Suzanne E. Franks 5. The Gender Gap in Information Technology Mo-Yin S. Tam and Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. 6. African American Women in Science: Experiences from High School through the Post- secondary Years and Beyond Sandra L. Hanson 7. African Women Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Sciences: Racism, Gender Bias, and Third World Marginality Josephine Beoku-Betts 8. Gendered Experiences in the Science Classroom Molly J. Dingel Part III. Feminist Study of Scientific Practice 9. The Construction of Sexual Bimorphism and Heterosexuality in the Animal Kingdom Kirsten Smilla Ebeling 10. Feminism and Science: Mechanism without Reductionism Carla Fehr 11. Across the Language Barrier: Gender in Plant Biology and Feminist Theory Dana A. Dudle and Meryl Altman Part IV. Remedies and Change 12. The Graduate Experience of Women in STEM and How It Could Be Improved Anne J. MacLachlan 13. How Can Women and Students of Color Come to Belong in Graduate Mathematics? Abbe H. Herzig 14. Designing Gender-Sensitive Computer Games to Close the Gender Gap in Technology Anna M. Martinson 15. Making Sense of Retention: An Examination of Undergraduate Women's Participation in Physics Courses Heidi Fencl and Karen R. Scheel 16. Creating Academic Career Opportunities for Women in Science: Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges Neal B. Abraham 17. Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia Virginia Valian Selected Readings Contributors Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women in science -- Congresses.
Women scientists -- Employment -- Congresses.
Feminism and science -- Congresses.