Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins

by Margaret A. Eisenhart and Elizabeth Finkel

Book Overview

Are there any places where women succeed in science? Numerous studies in recent years have documented and lamented a gender gap in science and engineering. From elementary school through college, women's interest in science steadily declines, and as adults, they are less likely to pursue careers in science-related fields.

Women's Science offers a dramatic counterpoint not only to these findings but also to the related, narrow assumption...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226195457
• ISBN13: 9780226195452
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"