Removing barriers  women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Jill M. Bystydzienski and Sharon R. Bird. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  c2006. 
 - viii, 347 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Papers originally presented at a 2002 conference at Iowa State University, "Retaining Women in Early Academic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Careers." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-335) and index. 
<br/><br/> Sustaining Gains: Reflections on Women in Science and Technology in the Twentieth-  Century United States /  From "Engineeresses" to "Girl Engineers" to "Good Engineers": A History of Women's U.S. Engineering Education /  Using POWRE to ADVANCE: Institutional Barriers Identified by Women Scientists and Engineers /  Telling Stories about Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity /  The Gender Gap in Information Technology /  African American Women in Science: Experiences from High School through the Post-  secondary Years and Beyond /  African Women Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Sciences: Racism, Gender Bias, and Third  World Marginality /  Gendered Experiences in the Science Classroom /  The Construction of Sexual Bimorphism and Heterosexuality in the Animal Kingdom /  Feminism and Science: Mechanism without Reductionism /  Across the Language Barrier: Gender in Plant Biology and Feminist Theory /  The Graduate Experience of Women in STEM and How It Could Be Improved /  How Can Women and Students of Color Come to Belong in Graduate Mathematics? / Abbe   H. Herzig -- Designing Gender-Sensitive Computer Games to Close the Gender Gap in Technology / Anna M. Martinson -- Making Sense of Retention: An Examination of Undergraduate Women's Participation in Physics Courses / Heidi Fencl and Karen R. Scheel -- Creating Academic Career Opportunities for Women in Science: Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges / Neal B. Abraham -- Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia / Virginia Valian.  Sally Gregory Kohlstedt --  Amy Sue Bix --  Sue V. Rosser --  Cynthia Burack and Suzanne E. Franks --  Mo-Yin S. Tam and Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. --  Sandra L. Hanson --  Josephine Beoku-Betts --  Molly J. Dingel --  Kirsten   Smilla Ebeling --  Carla Fehr --  Dana A.   Dudle and Meryl Altman --  Anne J. MacLachlan -- 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2006. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in science--Congresses.<br/>Women scientists--Employment--Congresses.<br/>Feminism and science--Congresses.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q130  / .R46 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.43/5