| Description |
xiii, 174 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. The author explores the personal, political, cultural, and economic factors that led to the success of these women. [She] proposes that for a woman to be successful in science not only requires perseverance and talent, but also structural opportunities, institutional support, and conscious decision making"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Contents |
Scientific pioneers -- Why aren't there more female scientific pioneers? -- Origins : individual attributes -- Development : structural opportunities -- Reaching the top : institutional forces -- The contradictions of norms -- What lies beneath? |
| Subject |
Women scientists.
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Women in science.
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| ISBN |
0761833501 paperback alk. ppr. |
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9780761833505 paperback alk. ppr. |
| Standard No. |
9780761833505 90000 |
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