Breaking Into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science

by Sue V. Rosser

Book Overview

Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479809209
• ISBN13: 9781479809202
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.2"