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Who's afraid of Marie Curie? : the challenges facing women in science and technology

Title
  1. Who's afraid of Marie Curie? : the challenges facing women in science and technology / Linley Erin Hall.
Published by
  1. Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, ©2007.
Author
  1. Hall, Linley Erin.

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Description
  1. 319 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  1. "Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? explores the opportunities and challenges facing women in science and technology, math and medicine, from grade school to grad school and beyond. Science writer Linley Hall's extensive research covers academia and industry, including scores of interviews that reveal the complex calculus of trying to balance personal lives with science careers." "For teachers, parents, academics, and aspiring and experienced scientists alike, Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? is at once a call to action, a cautionary tale, and a message of hope, offering a crucial assessment of how far we've come, and how far we have to go."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Science > Vocational guidance
  2. Technology > Vocational guidance
  3. Women in science
  4. Women in technology
  5. Women > Employment
  6. Women
  7. Science
  8. Technology
  9. Vocational guidance
  10. Working class women
  11. Women
  12. Science
  13. Technology
  14. Vocational Guidance
  15. Career Choice
  16. Women, Working
  17. sciences (philosophy)
  18. vocational guidance
  19. working class
  20. workers
  21. women (female humans)
  22. science (modern discipline)
  23. Working class women
  24. Vocational guidance
  25. Science > Vocational guidance
  26. Technology > Vocational guidance
  27. Women > Employment
  28. Women in science
  29. Women in technology
Contents
  1. A different education : girls in the science classroom -- Nature, nurture : what's behind scientific ability? -- Competing clocks : struggling for balance in science careers -- Swimming upstream : bias against women in science -- A degree of BS : women in undergraduate science -- Doctor, post doctor : before and after the PhD -- A lab of her own : women scientists in academia -- Beyond the ivory tower : women scientists in industry and goverment -- The frontiers of medicine : women doctors -- Hanging up her lab coat : women leaving science -- Get 'em young : encouraging girls in science -- Welcoming women : improving science for all -- Appendix 1: So she wants to be a scientist : what now? -- Appendix 2: So you're a scientist : what now?
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315).