| Description |
xvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Research on women and education.
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eBook Academic Collection - North America
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I. Women of color in STEM : resilience and opportunity. What Plato took for granted : an examination of the first five African female mathematicians and what that says about resistance to the western epistemological canon / Nicole M. Joseph -- Women of color in the STEM academic workplace / Lindsay Johnson, Kecia M. Thomas, and Lindsay Brown -- Breaking barriers : inspiring stories about NASA women of color / Lisa Brown, Andrea Foster, and Barbara Polnick -- Mathematics literacy, identity resilience, and opportunity sixty years since Brown v. Board : counternarratives of a five-generation family / Jacqueline Leonard, Erica N. Walker, and Nicole M. Joseph -- Part II. Women of color in STEM : stories of struggles and success. The fulfillment of a mother's dream : an African woman's story of struggle and success in science / Cailisha L. Petty and Catherin Dinitra White -- Navigating the STEM landscape : examining the role of spatial reasoning for women of color / Samina Hadi-Tabassum -- Diversity in STEM? : challenges influencing the experiences of African American female engineers / Delores Rice -- Present but not accounted for : examining how intersectional identities create a double bind for and affect leadership of women of color in educational settings / Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, Danielle D. Dickens, Gabe H. Miller, and Carla A. Zimmerman. |
| Access |
License restrictions may limit access. |
| Subject |
Women in science.
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Women scientists.
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Professions -- Women.
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African American women in the professions.
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| Added Author |
Ballenger, Julia, 1949-
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Polnick, Barbara.
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Irby, Beverly J.
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eBook Academic Collection - North America
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| Added Title |
Women of color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| ISBN |
9781681237060 (paperback) |
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1681237067 (paperback) |
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9781681237077 (hardcover) |
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1681237075 (hardcover) |
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9781681237084 (ebook) |
| OCLC # |
sseb_ssj0001815237 |
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