This book critically examines the career development of female scientific pioneers. Drawing from existing biographical and ethnographical data, author Joyce Tang analyzes the life and career histories of ten extraordinary female scientists_Marie Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Margaret Mead, Barbara McClintock, Maria Goeppert-Meyer, Rachel Carson, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Dorothy Hodgkin, Rosalyn Yalow, and Fay Ajzenberg-Selove.
This book critically examines the career development of female scientific pioneers. Drawing from existing biographical and ethnographical data, author Joyce Tang analyzes the life and career histories of ten extraordinary female scientists_Marie Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Margaret Mead, Barbara McClintock, Maria Goeppert-Meyer, Rachel Carson, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Dorothy Hodgkin, Rosalyn Yalow, and Fay Ajzenberg-Selove.
Joyce Tang is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an accomplished author with numerous published journal articles and the book Doing Engineering: The Career Attainment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Inhaltsangabe
1 List of Tables 2 Preface 3 Scientific Pioneers 4 Why Aren't There More Females Scientific Pioneers? 5 Origins: Individual Attributes 6 Development: Structural Opportunities 7 Reaching the Top: Institutional Forces 8 The Contradictions of Norms 9 What Lies Beneath? 10 Endnotes 11 Bibliography 12 Index 13 About the Author
1 List of Tables 2 Preface 3 Scientific Pioneers 4 Why Aren't There More Females Scientific Pioneers? 5 Origins: Individual Attributes 6 Development: Structural Opportunities 7 Reaching the Top: Institutional Forces 8 The Contradictions of Norms 9 What Lies Beneath? 10 Endnotes 11 Bibliography 12 Index 13 About the Author
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