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    The Woman Scientist: Meeting the Challenges for a Successful Career » Read Now

    by Clarice M. Yentsch, Carl J. Sindermann. 271 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
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    Feminism and Science » Read Now

    by Evelyn Fox Keller, Helen E. Longino. 290 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    (Series copy) The new Oxford Readings in Feminism series maps the dramatic influence of feminist theory on every branch of academic knowledge. Offering feminist perspectives on disciplines from history to science, each book assembles the most important articles written on its field in the last ten...
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    Women Changing Science: Voices from a Field in Transition » Read Now

    by Mary Morse. 280 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...and Politics: Interviews with Women in Science Policy 205 Chapter...the University of Minnesotas women in science and technology support group...find that not all was well...
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    The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth-Century American Women Inventors » Read Now

    by Denise E. Pilato. 204 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Throughout the 19th century, women inventors developed significant technologies, yet, because of complex cultural barriers and the pervasive image of the inventor as male, their technological contributions have until now been ignored and undervalued. This study, the first to focus exclusively on...
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    Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary » Read Now

    by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer. 484 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the present. The essays go beyond basic facts found in standard biographical dictionaries...
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    Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary » Read Now

    by Charlene Morrow, Teri Perl. 302 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This volume features substantive biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics from antiquity to the present. Designed for secondary school students and the general public, each profile describes major life events, obstacles faced and...
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    African American Women Scientists and Inventors » Read Now

    by Jim Haskins, Otha Richard Sullivan. 150 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Meet African american women of science and invention from the early years to modern Times Patricia Bath, M.D. Miriam E. Benjamin Ursula Burns Alexa Canady, M.D. Jewel Plummer Cobb, Ph.D. Ellen F. Eglin Angela D. Ferguson, M.D. Sara E. Goode Evelyn Boyd Granville, Ph.D. Dannellia Gladden Green, Ph.D...
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    Women and Mathematics: Balancing the Equation » Read Now

    by Susan F. Chipman, Lorelei R. Brush, Donna M. Wilson. 388 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...underrepresentation of women in science fields can be attributed...select a major in the social sciences. Retention of Women in Math-Related Fields It...Table 1.6...
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    Women Inventors in Canada in the 1980s, in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology » Read Now

    by Helene Cummins, Susan A. McDaniel, Rachelle Sender Beauchamp. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...social reward. When women seek to be creative in the realms of science and technology...is seen to be science, whereas if women apply a similar method in a different...
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    Marie Curie, A Life » Read Now

    by Francoise Giroud, Lydia Davis. 276 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate: Her Life and Work in Medicine: A Biographical Memoir » Read Now

    by Eugene Straus. 280 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow, known as the "Madame Curie from the Bronx", was the second woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in medicine. In this biography (reprint of the 1998 publication), a colleague reveals the extraordinary intelligence and determination that led her to overcome countless obstacles as a woman scientist in a man's world.
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    Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist » Read Now

    by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. 141 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
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    Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America » Read Now

    by Helen Wright. 258 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...penetrating. Like most of the women who ran the inns...business of the town in the absence of their...rumored that some women in their loneliness took...they wallowed...
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    Gender Equity Right from the Start, Vol. 1 » Read Now

    by Jo Sanders, Janice Koch, Josephine Urso. 135 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...mathematics--United States. 9. Women in science--United States. 10. Women in...conducted at Harvard found that women in science who had female advisers during...presented...
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    Gender Equity Right from the Start, Vol. 2 » Read Now

    by Jo Sanders, Janice Koch, Josephine Urso. 114 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...mathematics--United States. 9. Women in science--United States. 10. Women in...conducted at Harvard found that women in science who had female advisers during...February...

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