TY - BOOK AU - Bystydzienski,Jill M. AU - Bird,Sharon R. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Removing barriers: women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics AV - Q130 .R46 2006 U1 - 305.43/5 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Women in science KW - Congresses KW - Women scientists KW - Employment KW - Feminism and science KW - Electronic books N1 - Papers originally presented at a 2002 conference at Iowa State University, "Retaining Women in Early Academic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Careers."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-335) and index; Sustaining Gains: Reflections on Women in Science and Technology in the Twentieth- Century United States; Sally Gregory Kohlstedt --; From "Engineeresses" to "Girl Engineers" to "Good Engineers": A History of Women's U.S. Engineering Education; Amy Sue Bix --; Using POWRE to ADVANCE: Institutional Barriers Identified by Women Scientists and Engineers; Sue V. Rosser --; Telling Stories about Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity; Cynthia Burack and Suzanne E. Franks --; The Gender Gap in Information Technology; Mo-Yin S. Tam and Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. --; African American Women in Science: Experiences from High School through the Post- secondary Years and Beyond; Sandra L. Hanson --; African Women Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Sciences: Racism, Gender Bias, and Third World Marginality; Josephine Beoku-Betts --; Gendered Experiences in the Science Classroom; Molly J. Dingel --; The Construction of Sexual Bimorphism and Heterosexuality in the Animal Kingdom; Kirsten Smilla Ebeling --; Feminism and Science: Mechanism without Reductionism; Carla Fehr --; Across the Language Barrier: Gender in Plant Biology and Feminist Theory; Dana A. Dudle and Meryl Altman --; The Graduate Experience of Women in STEM and How It Could Be Improved; Anne J. MacLachlan --; How Can Women and Students of Color Come to Belong in Graduate Mathematics? / Abbe H. Herzig -- Designing Gender-Sensitive Computer Games to Close the Gender Gap in Technology / Anna M. Martinson -- Making Sense of Retention: An Examination of Undergraduate Women's Participation in Physics Courses / Heidi Fencl and Karen R. Scheel -- Creating Academic Career Opportunities for Women in Science: Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges / Neal B. Abraham -- Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia / Virginia Valian; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=278894 ER -