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Author Rossiter, Margaret W.

Title Women scientists in America : before affirmative action, 1940-1972 / Margaret W. Rossiter.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.435 R835W    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 584 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 1. World War II: Opportunity Lost? -- 2. Postwar "Adjustment": Displacement and Demotion -- 3. "Scientific Womanpower": Ambivalent Encouragement -- 4. Graduate School: Record Numbers Despite It All -- 5. Growth, Segregation, and Statistically "Other" -- 6. Faculty at Major Universities: The Antinepotism Rules and the Grateful Few -- 7. Resentful Research Associates: Marriage and Marginality -- 8. Protecting Home Economics, the Women's Field -- 9. Surviving in "Siberia" -- 10. Majors, Money, and Men at the Women's Colleges -- 11. Nonprofit Institutions and Self-Employment: A Second Chance -- 12. Corporate Employment: Research and Customer Service -- 13. Governmental "Showcase"? -- 14. Invisibility and Underrecognition: Less and Less of More and More -- 15. Women's Clubs and Prizes: Partial Palliatives -- 16. The Path to Liberation: Consciousness Raised, Legislation Enacted.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [531]-556) and index.
Subject Women scientists -- United States -- History.
Women in science -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0801848938 (acid-free paper)
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