| Description |
xxii, 461 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Labor and social change
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-456) and index. |
| Contents |
Women, science, engineering, and technology through the ages -- Priscilla Auchincloss -- W. Lena Austin -- Judith Badner -- Eleanor Baum -- Susan H. Brawley -- Aida Casiano-Colon -- Martha A. Chavez -- Yvonne Y. Clark -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Theo Colborn -- Lizabeth Coller -- Margarita H. Colmenares -- Esther Marly Conwell -- Debbie C. Crans -- Fay Dansby -- Jane Dillehay -- Mildred Dresselhaus -- Barbara Duhl-Emswiler -- Bonnie J. Dunbar -- Cynthia Dusel-Bacon -- Kathryn Edwards -- M. Joycelyn Elders -- Gertrude Belle Elion -- Patricia L. Eng -- Deborah Estrin -- Judy Estrin -- Thelma Estrin --Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Eden Fisher -- Kathy Hardis Fraeman -- Judy R. Franz -- Cynthia Friend -- Beatrice Fu -- Diana Garcia-Prichard -- Rhea L. Graham -- Temple Grandin -- Ann Grant -- Deborah Lynn Grubbe -- Susan Armstrong Henry -- Esther A.H. Hopkins -- Wen-Ling Hsu -- Linda Huff -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Elizabeth Jones -- Gretchen Kalonji -- Anna Karlin -- Betty Lane -- Frances Lockwood -- Vivian Loftness -- Susan Love -- Sara Majetich -- Luz J. Martinez-Miranda -- Sue McNeil -- Sandra Murray -- Nalini M. Nadkarni -- Lee Park -- Elisabeth Pate-Cornell -- Donna Rose Peterson -- Arati Prabhakar -- Margaret N. Rees -- Nancy Rhoads -- Evelyn M. Rodriguez -- Sue V. Rosser -- Vera Rubin -- Laura Santos -- Linda C. Shackelford -- Cheryl L. Shavers -- Mary M. Shaw -- Bonnie Shulman -- Ellen Kovner Silbergeld -- Barbara Smuts -- Tami I. Spector -- Donna Spiegelman -- Lois Steele -- Olga Victoria Taller -- Sonja Teraguchi -- Karen Uhlenbeck -- Judith R. Vergun -- Lydia Villa-Komaroff -- Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch -- Katrina D. Washington -- Joanne Westin -- Sheila Evans Widnall -- Carol Wilson -- Susan Wood -- Lilian Shiao-Yen Wu -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Judith S. Young. |
| Summary |
The core of this book is 88 profiles with photographs of women scientists and engineers whose diversity is stunning. Journeys of women in science and engineering includes research scientists and engineers in areas from biochemistry to mathematics, from neuroscience to computer science, from animal science to civil engineering. It includes those who have made careers in public service--people like Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the recent U.S. Surgeon General--Dr. Susan Love, the breast cancer activist; and Rhea L. Graham, the first woman and first African American director of the Bureau of Mines. It includes Nobel Prize winners, beginning assistant professors, division directors of corporations, and even an engineering school dean. The indexes by field of speciality make it easy for the reader to compare the life stories of, for example, all the chemical engineers or all the mathematicians. There is also an index by employment sector. The book begins with a thorough introduction to the history of women in science and engineering. |
| Subject |
Women in science.
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Women in engineering.
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Women scientists -- Biography.
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Women engineers -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Ambrose, Susan A., 1958-
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| ISBN |
1566395275 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1566395283 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 154285692 |
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