Science At The Woman S College
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Women Of Science
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Author : Gabriele Kass-Simon
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1993
Women Of Science written by Gabriele Kass-Simon and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Science categories.
Women of Science is a collection of essays dealing with contributions women have made to various scientific disciplines, written by women scientists in those disciplines. The areas covered are: astronomy, archaeology, biology, chemistry, crystallography, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics. The women who have written these essays are, for the most part, not professional historians, but rather scientific professionals who felt the necessity of researching the contributions women have made to the devlopment of their fields. The essays are unique, not only because they recover lost women who made significant contributions to their disciplines, but also because they are written with a depth of understanding that only a scientist working in a specific area can have. The essays will be of interest not only to students (especially women students) of science who may be unaware of the many contributions women have made, but also to readers of the history of science whoses texts more often than not fail to include the work of most women scientists.
Women And Science
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Author : Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2006
Women And Science written by Suzanne Le-May Sheffield and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Science categories.
From Maria Winkelman's discovery of the comet of 1702 to the Nobel Prize-winning work of twentieth-century scientist Barbara McClintock, women have played a central role in modern science. Their successes have not come easily, nor have they been consistently recognized. This book examines the challenges and barriers women scientists have faced and chronicles their achievements as they struggled to attain recognition for their work in the male-dominated world of modern science.
Women S Science
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Author : Margaret A. Eisenhart
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1998-11-15
Women S Science written by Margaret A. Eisenhart and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-15 with Social Science categories.
Are there any places where women succeed in science? Numerous studies in recent years have documented and lamented a gender gap in science and engineering. From elementary school through college, women's interest in science steadily declines, and as adults, they are less likely to pursue careers in science-related fields. Women's Science offers a dramatic counterpoint not only to these findings but also to the related, narrow assumption that "real science" only occurs in research and laboratory investigation. This book describes women engaged with science or engineering at the margins: an innovative high school genetics class; a school-to-work internship for prospective engineers, an environmental action group, and a nonprofit conservation agency. In these places—where people use or rely on science for public, social, or community purposes—the authors found a remarkably high proportion of women. Moreover, these women were successful at learning and using technical knowledge, they advanced in roughly equal percentages to men, and they generally enjoyed their work. Yet, even in these more marginal workplaces, women had to pay a price. Working outside traditional laboratories, they enjoy little public prestige and receive significantly less financial compensation. Although most employers claimed to treat men and women equally, women in fact only achieved success when they acted like male professionals. Women's Science is an original and provocative contribution that expands our conception of scientific practice as it reconfigures both women's role in science and the meaning of science in contemporary society.
Pathways For Women In The Sciences
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Author : Paula M. Rayman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Pathways For Women In The Sciences written by Paula M. Rayman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
The Pathways for Women in the Sciences Project is a longitudinal research effort which address the issue of women's participation and persistence in science.
Ten Women Who Changed Science And The World
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Author : Catherine Whitlock
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-02-07
Ten Women Who Changed Science And The World written by Catherine Whitlock and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Science categories.
'These minibiographies of women who persisted will move anyone with an avid curiosity about the world.' Publishers Weekly With a foreword by Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College. Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women. Their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events. What drove these remarkable women to cure previously incurable diseases, disprove existing theories or discover new sources of energy? Some were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for their pioneering achievements -Madame Curie, twice - others were not and, even if they had been, many are still not the household names they should be. Despite living during periods when the contribution of women was disregarded, if not ignored, these resilient women persevered with their research, whether creating life-saving drugs or expanding our knowledge of the cosmos. By daring to ask 'How?' and 'Why?' and persevering against all odds, each of these women, in a variety of ways, has helped to make the world a better place. The scientists are: Henrietta Leavitt (United States, Astronomy); Lise Meitner (Austria, Physics); Chien-Shiung Wu (United States, Physics); Marie Curie (France, Chemistry); Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (United Kingdom, Chemistry); Virginia Apgar (United States, Medicine); Gertrude Elion (United States, Medicine); Rita Levi-Montalicini (Italy, Biology); Elsie Widdowson (United Kingdom, Biology); Rachel Carson (United States, Biology).
The Outlook For Women In Science Physics And Astronomy
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Author : United States. Women's Bureau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Outlook For Women In Science Physics And Astronomy written by United States. Women's Bureau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Science categories.
Women Scientists In America
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Author : Margaret W. Rossiter
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1982
Women Scientists In America written by Margaret W. Rossiter and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize In volume one of this landmark study, focusing on developments up to 1940, Margaret Rossiter describes the activities and personalities of the numerous women scientists—astronomers, chemists, biologists, and psychologists—who overcame extraordinary obstacles to contribute to the growth of American science. This remarkable history recounts women's efforts to establish themselves as members of the scientific community and examines the forces that inhibited their active and visible participation in the sciences.
Science At The Woman S College
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Author : Woman's College of the University of North Carolina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Science At The Woman S College written by Woman's College of the University of North Carolina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Science categories.
Women In Science
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Author : Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1986
Women In Science written by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Science categories.
From the ancient Greek physician Agamede to physicist and chemist Marie Curie, in descriptions ranging from a single paragraph to several pages, Women in Science profiles 186 women who as patronesses, translators, popularizers, collectors, illustrators, inventors, and active researchers, made significant contributions to science before 1910. It adds a new dimension to the history of science by rescuing from obscurity the many women who overcame significant cultural barriers to pursue scientific objectives. Was Marie Curie the only woman in science? This question, asked by a college student trying to write an essay on women in science, planted a seed that grew over a decade of research into this informative and accessible biographical dictionary and bibliography. At the heart of this biographical dictionary are profiles of 186 women whose work is representative of the participation of women in the science of their time and culture. Despite the increasing attention devoted to women's history in recent years, our knowledge of many of these women is still meager, and the book will serve as much as a guide to future research as a resource for historians, librarians, students, and the general public. The book opens with a substantial essay relating the general state of science and philosophical ideas about the role of women in society to the actual participation of women in science over the past two and a half millennia. The classified, annotated bibliography that completes the book can be used as a general research tool as well as a source of information about the particular women whose lives are sketched in this work. The entries provide basic information on their subjects, are referenced to primary sources and other materials in the bibliography, and share an easily flowing narrative style. Beyond that, the length, approach, and focus of the entries have been allowed to vary within an appropriate range to suit the particular women whose lives they recount and whose achievements they evaluate.
Ladies In The Laboratory American And British Women In Science 1800 1900
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Author : Mary R.S. Creese
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Ladies In The Laboratory American And British Women In Science 1800 1900 written by Mary R.S. Creese and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Science categories.
A systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research, this book covers the two countries in which women of the period were most active in scientific work and examines all the fields in which they were engaged. The field-by-field examination brings out patterns and concentrations in women's research (in both countries) and allows a systematic comparison of the two national groups. Through this comparison, new insights are provided into how the national patterns developed and what they meant, in terms of both the process of women's entry into research and the contributions they made there. Ladies in the Laboratory? features a specialized bibliography of nineteenth century research journal publications by women, created from the London Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900. In addition, 23 illustrations present in condensed form information about American and British women's scientific publications throughout the nineteenth century. This well-organized blend of individual life stories and quantitative information presents a great deal of new data and field-by-field analysis; its broad and methodical coverage will make it a basic work for everyone interested in the story of women's participation in nineteenth century science.