Breaking in: Women's Accounts of How Choices Shape Stem Careers

by Mimi Wolverton, Lisa Nagaoka, Ann Wolverton

Book Overview

Why is it that, while women in the United States have generally made great strides in establishing parity with their male counterparts in educational attainment, they remain substantially underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)? Why is it that, in proportion to the PhDs they obtain in STEM, they attain fewer administrative and managerial positions in academia and industry than their numbers warrant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579224296
• ISBN13: 9781579224295
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"