Women and Scientific Employment

ISBN-13: 9780333683187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 190 str.

Judith Glover; J. Glover

Opis

This text combines empirical data and theoretical discussion on women's representation in scientific education and employment. Comparisons are made between the UK, and the USA and France. The case is put for the scientific disciplines to be examined separately, both empirically and theoretically.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Does the Issue of Women and the Sciences Matter? British Women in Scientific Education and Employment Women Scientists in France and the USA Is Physics the Issue? Explaining Women's Representation in the Sciences Exclusions: American Women of Science Issues Arising Index

O autorze

JUDITH GLOVER is Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Roehampton Institute, London. She has directed, with Jane Fielding, an ESRC-funded project 'Gender and Science, Engineering and Technology', 1994-7. She is currently directing a research project funded by the Directorate-General XII of the European Commission, which is mapping the data on women and the sciences in all member states.