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Adams, Jill U. Nurturing women scientists. Science, v. 319, Feb. 8, 2008: 831-836. Rosser, Sue V., and Mark Zachary Taylor. Why are we still worried about women in science? Academe: bulletin of the AAUP, v. 95, May/June 2009: 6-10. Women's work: a special section of Nature finds that there is still much to do to achieve gender equality in science. Nature, v. 495, Mar. 7, 2013: 21-44.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on women in the sciences can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs include the following.
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's heritage: a history of women in
science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. London,
Women's Press, 1986. 230 p. Creese, Mary R. S., and Thomas M. Creese. Ladies in the laboratory?: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributions to research. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 1998. 452 p. Creese, Mary R. S., and Thomas M. Creese. Ladies in the laboratory II: West European women in science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributions to research. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 2004. 290 p. Creese, Mary R. S., and Thomas M. Creese. Ladies in the laboratory III: South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science: nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a survey of their contributions. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 2010. 247 p. Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 584 p. Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: forging a new world since 1972. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012. 426 p. Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: struggles
and strategies to 1940. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press, c1982. 439 p. Schiebinger, Londa L. The mind has no sex? women in the origins
of modern science. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press,
1989. 355 p. 1989 Uneasy careers and intimate lives: women in science, 1789-1979.
Edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram. New Brunswick, Rutgers
University Press, c1987. 365 p. Women of science: righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon
and Patricia Farnes. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, c1990.
398 p.
General McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries. Rev. ed. Secaucus, NJ, Carol Pub. Group, 1998. 451 p. The Science on women and science. Christina Hoff Sommers, editor. Washington, AEI Press; Summit, PA, Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2009. 330 p. Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May. Women and science: social impact and interaction. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2004. 409 p. Tang, Joyce. Scientific pioneers: women succeeding in science. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, c2006. 175 p. Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, c1999. 366 p. Watts, Ruth. Women in science: a social and cultural history. London, New York, Routledge, 2007. 300 p. Whaley, Leigh Ann. Women's history as scientists: a guide to the debates. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2003. 252 p. Anthropology, Geography, and Exploration Eppinga, Jane. They made their mark: an illustrated history of the Society of Woman Geographers. Guilford, CT, Globe Pequot Press, c2009. 270 p. Maddrell, Avril. Complex locations: women's geographical work in the UK, 1850-1970. Chichester, Eng., Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 411 p. Women anthropologists: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Ute Gacs and others. New York, Greenwood Press, 1988. 428 p. Astronautics and Aviation Ackmann, Martha. The Mercury 13: the untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight. New York, Random House, c2003. 239 p Foster, Amy E. Integrating women into the astronaut corps: politics and logistics at NASA, 1972-2004. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. 207 p. Freni, Pamela. Space for women: a history of women with the right stuff. Santa Ana, CA, Seven Locks Press, c2002. 210 p. Lebow, Eileen F. Before Amelia: women pilots in the early days of aviation. Washington, Brassey's, Inc., c2002. 315 p. Merry, Lois K. Women military pilots of World War II: a history with biographies of American, British, Russian, and German aviators. Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co., c2011. 212 p. Shayler, David, and Ian A. Moule. Women in space: following Valentina. Berlin, New York Springer; Chichester, Eng., published in association with Praxis Pub., c2005. 410 p. Weitekamp, Margaret A. Right stuff, wrong sex: America's first women in space program. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004. 232 p. Welch, Rosanne. Encyclopedia of women in aviation and space. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c1998. 286 p. Earth and Environmental Sciences Bonta, Marcia. Women in the field: America's pioneering women naturalists. College Station, Texas A & M University Press, c1991. 299 p. Breton, Mary Joy. Women pioneers for the environment. Boston, Northeastern University Press, c1998. 322 p. The Role of women in the history of geology. Edited by C. V. Burek and B. Higgs. London, Geological Society, c2007. 342 p. (Geological Society special publication, no. 281) Engineering, Technology, and Invention Abbate, Janet. Recoding gender: women's changing participation in computing. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2012. 247 p. Crossing boundaries, building bridges: comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s. Edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann. London, New York, Routledge, 2003. 290 p. (Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine, v. 12) Gender codes: why women are leaving computing. Edited by Thomas J. Misa. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley; Piscataway, NJ, IEEE Computer Society, c2010. 306 p. Macdonald, Anne L. Feminine ingenuity: women and invention in America. New York, Ballantine Books, 1992. 514 p. Pilato, Denise E. The retrieval of a legacy: nineteenth-century American women inventors. Westport, CT, Praeger, 2000. 200 p. Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and daughters of invention: notes for a revised history of technology. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1993. 1116 p. Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of invention: from the bra to the bomb: forgotten women & their unforgettable ideas. New York, Quill, 1989. 256 p. Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently female: from AZT to TV dinners: stories of women inventors and their breakthrough ideas. New York, Wiley, c2002. 220 p. Women in engineering. Pioneers and trailblazers. Edited by Margaret E. Layne. Reston, VA, ASCE Press, c2009. 247 p. Health, Medicine, and Psychology American nursing: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Vern L. Bullough, Olga Maranjian Church, Alice P. Stein. New York, Garland, 1988-2000. 3 v. (Garland reference library of social science, v. 368, 684) Bellafaire, Judith, and Mercedes Graf. Women doctors in war. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, c2009. 255 p. (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series, no. 128) Boulis, Ann K., and Jerry A. Jacobs. The changing face of medicine: women doctors and the evolution of health care in America. Ithaca, NY, ILR Press/Cornell University Press, c2008. 266 p. Dictionary of American nursing biography. Martin Kaufman, editor-in-chief; Joellen Watson Hawkins, Loretta P. Higgins, and Alice Howell Friedman, contributing editors. New York, Greenwood Press, 1988. 462 p. Henderson, Metta Lou. American women pharmacists: contributions to the profession. New York, Pharmaceutical Products Press, c2002. 221 p. Hurd-Mead, Kate Campbell. A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the nineteenth century. New York, AMS Press, 1977, c1938. 569 p. Kirschmann, Anne Taylor. A vital force: women in American homeopathy. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, c2004. 230 p. Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell. Sympathy and science: women physicians in American medicine. New York, Oxford University Press, 1985. 464 p. More, Ellen Singer. Restoring the balance: women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1999. 340 p. Quinn, Thomas A. The feminine touch: women in osteopathic medicine. Kirksville, MO, Truman State University Press, c2011. 194 p. Scrivener, Laurie, and J. Suzanne Barnes. A biographical dictionary of women healers: midwives, nurses, and physicians. Westport, CT, Oryx Press, 2002. 340 p. Windsor, Laura Lynn. Women in medicine: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2002. 259 p.
Includes bibliographical references QK26.P546 2008 <SciRR> Rayner-Canham, Marelene F., and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham. A devotion to their science: pioneer women of radioactivity. Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997. 307 p. Rayner-Canham, Marelene F., and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. Women in chemistry: their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century. Washington, American Chemical Society; Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998. 284 p. Mathematics Green, Judy, and Jeanne LaDuke. Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's. Providence, RI, American Mathematical Society; London, London Mathematical Society, c2009. 349 p. (History of mathematics, v. 34) Kenschaft, Patricia C. Change is possible: stories of women and minorities in mathematics. Providence, RI, American Mathematical Society, c2005. 212 p. Murray, Margaret Anne Marie. Women becoming mathematicians: creating a professional identity in post-World War II America. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2000. 277 p. Notable women in mathematics: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1998. 302 p.
Correspondence, Reminiscences, and Biographical Material American women afield: writings by pioneering women naturalists. Edited by Marcia Myers Bonta. College Station, Texas A&M University, c1995. 248 p. (Louise Lindsey Merrick natural environment series, no. 20) Bergland, Reneé L. Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science: an astronomer among the American romantics. Boston, Beacon Press, c2008. 300 p. Chung, King-Thom. Women pioneers of medical research: biographies of 25 outstanding scientists. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, c2010. 212 p. Complexities: women in mathematics. Edited by Bettye Anne Case, Anne M. Leggett. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, c2005. 412 p. Creative couples in the sciences. Helena M. Pycior, Nancy G. Slack, and Pnina G. Abir-Am, editors. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, c1996. 369 p. Darraj, Susan Muaddi. Mary Eliza Mahoney and the legacy of African American nurses. Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publishers, c2005. 136 p. Drum, Sue, and H. Ellen Whiteley. Women in veterinary medicine: profiles of success. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1991. 270 p. Flor y ciencia: Chicanas in science, mathematics, and engineering. Norma Cantú, editor. San Antonio, The Adelante Project, c2006. 180 p. Gleason, Janis F. The life and letters of Kate Gleason. Rochester, NY, RIT Press, c2010. 143 p. Goss, W. M. (William Miller), and Richard X. McGee. Under the radar: the first woman in radio astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott. Heidelberg, New York, Springer, 2009, c2010. 354 p. (Astrophysics and space science library, v. 363) In her own words: oral histories of women physicians. Edited by Regina Markell Morantz, Cynthia Stodola Pomerleau, and Carol Hansen Fenichel. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1982. 284 p. (Contributions in medical history, no. 8) Journeys of women in science and engineering: no universal constants. Susan A. Ambrose and others. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1997. 461 p. Levin, Beatrice. Women and medicine. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, c2002. 205 p. Lynn Margulis: the life and legacy of a scientific rebel. Edited by Dorion Sagan. White River Junction, VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012. 205 p. Mariano, Connie. The White House doctor: a memoir. New York, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2010. 300 p. Russo, Carolyn. Women and flight: portraits of contemporary women pilots. Washington, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Boston, Bulfinch Press, c1997. 192 p. Sisters in science: conversations with Black women scientists about race, gender, and their passion for science. Interviews by Diann Jordan. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Press, c2006. 240 p. Tolbert, Margaret E. M. Margaret E. M. Tolbert: transcript of an interview. Conducted by Jeannette E. Brown at National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia on 13 August 2009 (with subsequent corrections and additions). Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Oral History Program, 2010. 72 l. Tong, Benson. Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian leader and reformer. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, c1999. 285 p. Biographical Material for Younger Readers Anema, Durlynn. Ynes Mexia, botanist and adventurer. Greensboro, NC, Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2005. 144 p. Braun, Sandra. Women inventors who changed the world. New York, Rosen Central, 2012. 116 p. Camp, Carole Ann. American women inventors. Berkeley Heights, NJ, Enslow Publishers, c2004. 104 p. Di Domenico, Kelly. Women scientists who changed the world. New York, Rosen Pub., c2012. 106 p. Gueldenpfennig, Sonia. Women in space who changed the world. New York, Rosen Central, c2012. 118 p. Hopping, Lorraine Jean. Bone detective: the story of forensic anthropologist Diane France. New York, Franklin Watts; Washington, J. Henry Press, c2005. 118 p. Jemison, Mae. Find where the wind goes: moments from my life. New York, Scholastic, 2001. 196 p. TL789.85.J46J45 2001 Klobuchar, Lisa. Elizabeth Blackwell: with profiles of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Susan La Flesche Picotte. Chicago, World Book, c2007. 112 p. Langley, Wanda. Women of the wind: early women aviators. Greensboro, NC, Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2006. 160 p. Montgomery, Sy. Temple Grandin: how the girl who loved cows embraced autism and changed the world. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2012. 147 p. Morrison, John. Mathilde Krim and the story of AIDS. Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publishers, c2005. 130 p. Mortensen, Lori. Doris Taylor: growing a beating heart. Detroit, KidHaven Press, c2009. 48 p. Reichard, Susan E. Who on earth is Sylvia Earle?: undersea explorer of the ocean. Berkeley Heights, NJ, Enslow Publishers, c2010. 112 p. Skelton, Renee. Forecast earth: the story of climate scientist Inez Fung. New York, Franklin Watts, c2005. 116 p. Yount, Lisa. Rosalind Franklin: photographing biomolecules. New York, Chelsea House, c2011. 125 p. Education, Recruitment, and Career Opportunities Beyond bias and barriers: fulfilling the potential of women in academic science and engineering. Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering; Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2007. 317 p. Bilimoria, Diana, and Xiangfen Liang. Gender equity in science and engineering: advancing change in higher education. New York, Routledge, 2012. 247 p. (Routledge studies in management, organizations, and society, 15) Bonner, Thomas Neville. To the ends of the earth: women's search for education in medicine. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1992. 232 p. Dean, Donna J. Getting the most out of your mentoring relationships: a handbook for women in STEM. Dordrecht, New York, Springer, c2009. 168 p. (Mentoring in academia and industry, v. 3) Fisher, Robert L. (Robert Leslie). Making science fair: how can we achieve equal opportunity for men and women in science? Lanham, MD, University Press of America, c2007. 114 p. Gender differences at critical transitions in the careers of science, engineering, and mathematics faculty. Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Policy and Global Affairs and Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2010. 365 p. Hill, Catherine, Christianne Corbett, and Andresse St. Rose. Why so few?: women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Washington, AAUW, c2010. 109 p. Mentoring strategies to facilitate the advancement of women faculty. Kerry K. Karukstis and others; Sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education. Washington, American Chemical Society, c2010. 196 p. (ACS symposium series, 1057) Mills, Julie, Mary Ayre, and Judith Gill. Gender inclusive engineering education. New York, Routledge, 2010. 210 p. Reconfiguring the firewall: recruiting women to information technology across cultures and continents. Edited by Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer, and Peggy S. Meszaros. Wellesley, MA, AK Peters, c2007. 279 p. Rosser, Sue Vilhauer. Breaking into the lab: engineering progress for women in science. New York, New York University Press, c2012. 251 p. Rosser, Sue Vilhauer. The science glass ceiling: academic women scientists and the struggle to succeed. New York, Routledge, 2004. 165 p. Success strategies for women in science: a portable mentor. Edited by Peggy A. Pritchard. Burlington, MA, Elsevier Academic Press, c2006. 316 p. To recruit and advance: women students and faculty in science and engineering. Committee on the Guide to Recruiting and Advancing Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2006. 131 p. Tolley, Kimberley. The science education of American girls: a historical perspective. New York, RoutledgeFalmer, 2003. 287 p. Transforming science and engineering: advancing academic women. Abigail J. Stewart, Janet E. Malley, and Danielle LaVaque-Manty, editors. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2007. 362 p. Why aren't more women in science?: top researchers debate the evidence. Edited by Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams. Washington, American Psychological Association, c2007. 254 p. Williams, F. Mary, and Carolyn J. Emerson. Becoming leaders: a practical handbook for women in engineering, science, and technology. Reston, VA, American Society of Civil Engineers, c2008. 199 p. Women and information technology: research on underrepresentation. Edited by J. McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2006. 500 p. Women in engineering. Professional life. Margaret E. Layne. Reston, VA, American Society of Civil Engineers, c2009. 257 p.
Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c1998. 455 p. Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c1994. 463 p. The Biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Edited by Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey. New York, Routledge, 2000. 2 v. (1499 p.) Haines, Catharine M. C., and Helen M. Stevens. International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2001. 383 p. Herzenberg, Caroline L. Women scientists from antiquity to the present: an index: an international reference listing and biographical directory of some notable women scientists from ancient to modern times. West Cornwall, CT, Locust Hill Press, 1986. 200 p. Notable women scientists. Edited by Pamela Proffitt. Detroit, Gale Group, c1999. 668 p. Oakes, Elizabeth H. International encyclopedia of women scientists. New York, Facts on File, c2002. 448 p. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. Women in science: antiquity through the nineteenth century: a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c1986. 254 p. Wayne, Tiffany K. American women of science since 1900. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2011. 2 v. Women in science. Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, c2001. 421 p. Yount, Lisa. A to Z of women in science and math. Rev. ed. New York, Facts On File, c2008. 368 p. Zierdt-Warshaw, Linda, Alan Winkler, and Leonard Bernstein. American women in technology: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2000. 384 p.
Bindocci, Cynthia Gay. Women and technology: an annotated bibliography. New York, Garland Pub., 1993. 229 p. (Women's history and culture, v. 7) (Garland reference library of social science, v. 517) Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, and Kerry Lynne Meek. Women and science: an annotated bibliography. New York, Garland Pub., 1996. 556 p. (Garland reference library of social science, v. 859) Siegel, Patricia Joan, and Kay Thomas Finley. Women in the scientific search: an American bio-bibliography, 1724-1979. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1985. 399 p. Tinling, Marion. Women into the unknown: a sourcebook on women explorers and travelers. New York, Greenwood Press, 1989. 356 p. Women in chemistry and physics: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam H. Rafailovich. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1993. 721 p. Women in psychology: a bio-bibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Agnes N. O'Connell and Nancy Felipe Russo. New York, Greenwood Press, 1990. 441 p. Women in the biological sciences: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Carol A. Biermann, and Rose K. Rose. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997. 609 p. Women in medicine: a bibliography of the literature on women physicians. Compiled and edited by Sandra L. Chaff and others. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1977. 1124 p. Women of mathematics: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell. New York, Greenwood
Press, 1987. 292 p.
Biological, social, and organizational components of success for women in academic science and engineering: report of a workshop. Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2006. 221 p. IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (3rd, 2008, Seoul, Korea). Women in physics: 3rd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, Seoul, Korea, 8-10 October 2008. Editors, Beverly Karplus Hartline, K. Renee Horton, Catherine M. Kaicher. Melville, NY, American Institute of Physics, 2009. 272 p. (AIP conference proceedings, v. 1119) National Research Council (U.S.). Committee On Status and Participation of Women in STEM Disciplines and Careers. Blueprint for the future: framing the issues of women in science in a global context: summary of a workshop. Catherine Didion, Lisa M. Frehill, and Willie Pearson, Jr., rapporteurs; Committee On Status and Participation of Women in STEM Disciplines and Careers, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2012. 115 p. Women physicians and the cultures of medicine. Edited by Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, Manon Parry. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 357 p.
Corbett, Suzanne Marie. Women in dentistry during the Progressive Era: opportunities and challenges resulting from the True Womanhood ideology. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 1997. Dabney, Katherine Patricia Traudel. Differences within: a comparative analysis of women in the physical sciences: motivation and background factors. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2012. Hill, Roberta Jean. Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill: Mohawk woman physician. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 1998. Lincoln, Anne E. A supply-side approach to occupational feminization: veterinary medicine in the United States, 1976--1995. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2004. Pederson, Gail A. Factors that enable later career female nurses to complete their Ph.D. degrees in nursing. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2012. Robinson, Carrie. The characteristics and experiences of successful undergraduate Latina students who persist in engineering. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2012. Rosa, Katemari Diogo da. Gender, ethnicity, and physics education: understanding how Black women build their identities as scientists. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2013. Zhu, Yuelin. Chien-Shiung Wu: an intellectual biography. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2001.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Women in science at the National Institutes of Health, 2007-2008. Bethesda, MD, Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2009. 225 p. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Corporate Planning and Policy Directorate. Women in science and engineering in Canada. Ottawa, ON, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2010. 76 p. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Encouraging the participation of female students in STEM fields: hearing before the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 21, 2009. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2010. 68 p. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2008: hearing before the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, May 8, 2008. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2008. 55 p. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Women in academic science and engineering: hearing before the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, October 17, 2007. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2008. 70 p.
American Chemical Society American Institute of Physics Association of American Medical Colleges European Commission The National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine National Science Foundation United States Department of Labor
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