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Description
319 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315).
Contents
A different education : girls in the science classroom -- Nature, nurture : what's behind scientific ability? -- Competing clocks : struggling for balance in science careers -- Swimming upstream : bias against women in science -- A degree of BS : women in undergraduate science -- Doctor, post doctor : before and after the PhD -- A lab of her own : women scientists in academia -- Beyond the ivory tower : women scientists in industry and government -- The frontiers of medicine : women doctors -- Hanging up her lab coat : women leaving science -- Get 'em young : encouraging girls in science -- Welcoming women : improving science for all -- Appendix 1: So she wants to be a scientist : what now? -- Appendix 2: So you're a scientist : what now?