Screen LibraryPathways, potholes, and the persistence of women in science : reconsidering the pipeline /
"Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an al...
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Lexington Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative model that better articulates the ideas of agency, constraint, and variability along the path to scientific careers for women. The chapters in this volume apply the metaphor of the road to a variety of fields and moments that are characterized as exits, pathways, and potholes. The scholars featured in this volume engaged purposefully in translation of sociological scholarship on gender, work, and organizations. They focus on the themes that emerge from their scholarship that add to or build on our existing knowledge of scientific work, while identifying tools as well as challenges to diversifying science. This book contains a multitude of insights about navigating the road while training for and building a career in science."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-237) and index. |
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9781498516365 149851636X 9781498516389 1498516386 9781498516372 1498516378 |
| Index Number: | Q130 |
| CLC: | G316 |
| Call Number: | G316/P297 |
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Gendered Responses to Failure in Undergraduate Computing : Evidence, Contradictions, and New Directions / Is College Enough? Gender Disparities in the Use of Science and Engineering Degrees in the Workforce / Women Faculty in Computing: A Key Case of Women in Science / Does the Road Improve in the Land of the Tenured? Exploring Perceptions of Culture and Satisfaction by Rank and Gender / Potholes and Detours on the Road to Full Professor: A Tale of STEM Faculty at Two Liberal Arts Colleges / Crisis of Confidence: Young Women Doing Gender and Science / Who's the Expert? Gendered Conceptions and Expressions of Expertise by Chemists-in-Training / The Postdoc Pothole: The Changing Segmentation of the Biomedical Research Workforce, 1993-2008 / The Long Shadow of Immigration Policy: "Apropriate Work" and Wage Inequality in U.S. Tech Work / Pathways for Women in Global Science / Agency of Women of Color in STEM: Individual and Institutional Strategies for Persistence and Success / Smooth Roads to Promotion: Creating Data-Guided and Community-Generated Changes for Eliminating Bumps and Potholes / |