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Author Camacho, Michelle Madsen, 1969-

Title The borderlands of education : Latinas in engineering / Michelle Madsen Camacho and Susan M. Lord
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 150 pages) : illustrations
Contents The borderlands of education -- A culture of exclusion : race, gender, and engineering education -- Debunking the myths : trajectories of Latinas in engineering -- Voices of Latinas in engineering -- Crossing borders : opportunities and challenges
Summary Why are there so few Latina engineers and what is the potential for change given demographic shifts of the Latino population? This interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach offers a new paradigm for examining the crisis of Latinas in engineering (a field that remains 82% male), illuminating the nuanced and multiple exclusionary forces that shape the culture of engineering and its borderlands
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women engineers -- Education -- United States
Hispanic American women -- Education (Higher) -- United States
Sex discrimination against women -- United States
Sex discrimination in higher education -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Hispanic American women -- Education (Higher)
Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in higher education
Women engineers -- Training of
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Lord, Susan M., 1965-
LC no. 2013005428
ISBN 0739175599
9780739175590