Addressing Gender Bias in Science & Technology

In this volume, seasoned professors tackle gender bias in the classroom by defining challenges specific to the sciences and discussing ways to dismantle and confront biases.

About the author

Samina Azad is a technical team leader, currently in the consumer packaged-goods industry. She leads change and motivates cross-functional product development teams daily to develop new products and technologies. She has taken thousands of new products to market, including a peroxide-based sterilizer for surgical medical devices. Azad has been serving ACS members in various leadership capacities since 2008. She earned her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
from University of Wisconsin and previously held two postdoctoral research positions at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University. She has published more than thirty scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Summary

In this volume, seasoned professors tackle gender bias in the classroom by defining challenges specific to the sciences and discussing ways to dismantle and confront biases.

Product details

• Authors: Samina (EDT) Azad
• Assisted by: Samina Azad (Editor), Samina (Consultant Azad (Editor)
• Publisher: American chemical society
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780841298903
• ISBN: 978-0-8412-9890-3
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 260 mm x 20 mm
• Series: ACS Symposium Series; ACS Symposium
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Industrial relations, health & safety, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General