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Author Hargittai, Magdolna, author.

Title Women scientists : reflections, challenges, and breaking boundaries / Magdolna Hargittai
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 363 pages) : illustrations
Contents Husband and wife teams -- At the top -- In high positions
Summary Magdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique challenges that women with serious scientific aspirations face. In addition to addressing challenges and the unjustifiable underrepresentation of women at the higher levels of academia, Hargittai takes a balanced approach by discussing how some of the most successful of these women have managed to obtain professional suc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
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Subject Women scientists -- Interviews
Scientists -- Interviews
Science.
Women.
Science
Women
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
women (female humans)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
SCIENCE -- History.
Women
Science
Scientists
Women scientists
Genre/Form Interviews
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014028839
ISBN 9780199359998
0199359997
1322775907
9781322775906