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List of contents
Forward and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Built for Life: The Story of the Avalon Dragon Boat Builders
2 Digital Megaphone: Egyptian Women’s Cyberactivism in the Revolution and Beyond
3 Sound Sisters: Engineering Women’s Music
4 Woman in Underground Detroit: The Non-Traditional Early Occupation of a University Graduate
5 Reaching for the Sky: Women Pilots at Major Commercial Airlines
6 Toward a Women-and-Technology Paradigm of Empowerment
BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the author
Carol J. Haddad is Professor Emerita, Eastern Michigan University. She served as a Professor in the School of Technology and Professional Services Management for 22 years, and also as a faculty affiliate in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, which she headed on an interim basis. She has published on gender and voice in the virtual classroom, and has presented conference papers on student learning outcomes in the Women and Technology and Green Technology courses she developed and taught online.
Dr. Haddad is recognized internationally for her scholarship on the management of technological change, which generated funded research projects culminating in her 2002 book Managing Technological Change: A Strategic Partnership Approach (Sage Publications). She was elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2013. Prior to arriving at EMU in 1993, she was a tenured faculty member in labor studies at Michigan State University, and held senior research management positions in the private sector.
She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in higher and adult continuing education, and an M.S. in labor studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Summary
This book offers fresh insight into women’s mastery of technologies commonly associated with men and the important implications for institutional efforts to attract women and girls to technical courses and careers.
