How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.
Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech , Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher education.
As Bix explains, a few women breached the gender-reinforced boundaries of engineering education before World War II. During World War II, government, employers, and colleges actively recruited women to train as engineering aides, channeling them directly into defense work. These wartime training programs set the stage for more engineering schools to open their doors to women. Bix offers three detailed case studies of postwar engineering coeducation. Georgia Tech admitted women in 1952 to avoid a court case, over objections by traditionalists. In 1968, Caltech male students argued that nerds needed a civilizing female presence. At MIT, which had admitted women since the 1870s but treated them as a minor afterthought, feminist-era activists pushed the school to welcome more women and take their talent seriously.
In the 1950s, women made up less than one percent of students in American engineering programs; in 2010 and 2011, women earned 18.4% of bachelor's degrees, 22.6% of master's degrees, and 21.8% of doctorates in engineering. Bix's account shows why these gains were hard won.
Автор: A. Nicki Washington Ph. D. Название: Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field ISBN: 098474679X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780984746798 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Black women and girls in the tech field face battles that often extend beyond academic performance or professional experience. Unapologetically Dope provides the lessons necessary to be successful yet still remain your most authentic self in a field where less than 1% of all graduates are Black women.
Автор: Gluckman Pratima Rao Название: Nevertheless, She Persisted: True Stories of Women Leaders in Tech ISBN: 1525512110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781525512117 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22980.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: It is no secret that the technical world is a male-dominated space. From the cultural belief that Computer Science is a "subject for boys", to the assumptions and discrimination women experience in the field, it can be challenging for women at every stage to thrive in tech careers.
Nevertheless, some high-performing women persist and succeed as leaders in tech despite the gender biases pitted against them. Pratima Rao Gluckman-a female leader in tech herself-embarked on a project to collect stories of the leadership journeys of such women. She wanted to know the details of these women's stories, and how they accomplished their achievements. What influenced them during their childhoods? Who were their mentors? What successes and failures did they experience? What magical ingredients helped them thrive in a male-dominated industry?
These questions and more inspired Gluckman to interview nineteen women leaders in several levels of technology industry, including VPs, CEOs and directors, all of which are collected in this groundbreaking book, Nevertheless, She Persisted. Whether you are a young woman thinking of a career in software, a middle-career or executive woman, a parent, or a man curious about the role gender plays in tech, this book reveals the secrets, successes, and hidden struggles that women have endured to become both highly accomplished in their technical skills and effective senior leaders in their organizations. Their stories are illuminating, intended to inspire generations of women and help free our society from the limiting belief that ability is somehow linked to gender.
Автор: Hardey, Mariann Название: Culture of women in tech ISBN: 1789734266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789734263 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 62330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Including a series of commentaries derived from research undertaken by the author with women working in tech clusters located within `tech cities` in the UK, USA and East Asia regions, this book exposes the serious `problem` of women`s position in the tech industry and helps to find solutions and ways forward.
Автор: Arnold, Gillian Dee, Hannah Herman, Clem Moore, Sharon Palmer, Andrea Shah, Shilpa Название: Women in tech ISBN: 1780175612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780175614 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 32990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This guide offers expertise, initiatives and true stories to support those wishing to bring greater gender diversity into the workplace. It aims to inform regarding background, theory and policy; advise on concrete actions that can be undertaken, and to be an exemplar for the tech industry in the form of real-world case studies.
Автор: Federici Silvia Название: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation ISBN: 1570270597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781570270598 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.
It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda.--Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged
Автор: Beard, Professor Mary Название: Women & power ISBN: 1788160606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788160605 Издательство: Profile Рейтинг: Цена: 9100.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Mary Beard`s feminist manifesto.
Автор: Murray Jenni Название: A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection ISBN: 1786076284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786076281 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 14510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names
Автор: Francoise Lionnet Название: Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture ISBN: 1501728040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501728044 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women’s autobiographical writing, Fran?oise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Marie Cardinal, Maryse Cond?, Marie-Th?r?se Humbert, Augustine, and Nietzsche.
Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women. Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women's musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement. An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women's Education illuminates how musical training added to women's lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society.
Автор: Bishop, Catherine Название: Women mean business ISBN: 1988531764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781988531762 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 39080.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: New Zealand's nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and their families, sometimes in productive partnership with husbands, but in other cases compensating for a spouse's incompetence, intemperance, or absence. The pages of this book overflow with the stories of hard-working milliners and dressmakers, teachers, boarding-house keepers, and more. Then, as now, there was no "typical" businesswoman. Their businesses could be wild successes or dismal failures, lasting just a few months or a lifetime. In this fascinating and entertaining book, Dr. Catherine Bishop showcases many of the individual businesswomen whose efforts, collectively, contributed so much to the making of urban life in New Zealand.
Автор: Colin Burgess Название: Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy ISBN: 1496218167 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496218162 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: On January 28, 1986, NASA space shuttle orbiter Challenger lifted off into the clear blue skies over Florida on mission STS-51L, carrying a crew of seven, including teacher Christa McAuliffe. Just seventy-three seconds into the launch, a massive explosion tore Challenger apart. This newly revised edition of Teacher in Space tells the story of how McAuliffe graduated from her role as a much-loved high school teacher to occupying a seat on the veteran orbiter’s tenth and last flight into space.
McAuliffe’s dream was to carry out science projects while in orbit around the earth that were to be telecast live to school students across the United States. Her dream came to a sudden and tragic end that terrible day. Nevertheless, that ambition to educate from space remained an inspiration to many and, in her name and those of the Challenger crew, manifested itself in the establishment of hundreds of youth education programs and institutes of learning across America and around the world.
Teacher in Space is a remarkable story of renewed faith, cooperation, and hope for the future and of a dedicated and much-loved teacher who came to symbolize the best of human achievement.
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