Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women

by Amy Sue Bix

Book Overview

How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.

Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262546515
• ISBN13: 9780262546515
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher