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This book illustrates the importance of focusing on the choices, constraints, and agency of women in science to understand which women, under what conditions, with what tools, successfully manage to navigate science or leave the discipline. The chapters in this volume apply the metaphor of the road to a variety of fields and moments that are characterized as exits, pathways, and potholes, which refocuses our attention on the challenges posed by and the conditions of scientific careers.
List of contents
Introduction, Enobong Hannah Branch
Part I: Navigating the Scientific Path
Chapter 1: Gendered Responses to Failure in Undergraduate Computing: Evidence, Contradictions, and New Directions, Enobong Hannah Branch and Sharla Alegria
Chapter 2: Is College Enough? Gender Disparities in the Use of Science and Engineering
Degrees in the Workforce, Margaret L. Usdansky and Rachel A. Gordon
Part II: Detours, Off-Ramps, and Gendered Roadblocks in Scientific Careers
Chapter 3: Women Faculty in Computing: A Key Case of Women in Science, Mary Frank Fox and Kathryn Kline
Chapter 4: Does the Road Improve in the Land of the Tenured? Exploring Perceptions of Culture and Satisfaction by Rank and Gender, Julia McQuillan, Mary Ann Holmes, Patricia Wonch Hill, and Mindy Anderson-Knott
Chapter 5: Potholes and Detours on the Road to Full Professor: A Tale of STEM Faculty at Two Liberal Arts Colleges, Catherine White Berheide
Part III: What the Pipeline Misses: Gender Performance at Work
Chapter 6: Crisis of Confidence: Young Women Doing Gender and Science, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Timothy Sacco, and Angela Stoutenburgh
Chapter 7: Who's the Expert? Gendered Conceptions and Expressions of Expertise by Chemists-in-Training, Laura Hirshfield
Part IV: Differential On-Ramps? Historical Forces Shaping the Scientific Workforce
Chapter 8: The Postdoc Pothole: The Changing Segmentation of the Biomedical Research Workforce, 1993-2008, Lisa M. Frehill
Chapter 9: The Long Shadow of Immigration Policy: "Appropriate Work" and Wage Inequality in U.S. Tech Work, Sharla Alegria and Cassaundra Rodriguez
Part V: Creating a Road Map: Strategies for Persistence
Chapter 10: Pathways for Women in Global Science, Kathryn Zippel
Chapter 11: Agency of Women of Color in STEM: Individual and Institutional Strategies for Persistence and Success, Maria Ong, Lily T. Ko, and Apriel K. Hodari
Chapter 12: Smooth Roads to Promotion: Creating Data Guided and Community Generated Changes for Eliminating Bumps and Potholes, Julia McQuillan, Mary Ann Holmes, Patricia Wonch Hill, and Mindy Anderson-Knott
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Edited by Enobong Hannah Branch - Contributions by Sharla Alegria; Mindy Anderson-Knott; Catherine White Berheide; Enobong Hannah Branch; Mary Frank Fox; Lisa Frehill; Rachel Gordon; Patricia Wonch Hill; Laura Hirshfield; Apriel K. Hodari; Mary Anne Holme
