forging a new world since 1972
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rossiter, Margaret W.
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 22 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijke beroepen, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This third volume focuses on the pioneering efforts and contributions of women scientists in America from 1972 to the present. Central to this story are the struggles and successes of women scientists in the era of affirmative action. The author follows the major activities of these groups in several fields — from engineering to the physical, biological, and social sciences — and their campaigns to raise consciousness, see legislation enforced, lobby for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and serve as watchdogs of the media. This volume also covers the changing employment circumstances in the federal government, academia, industry, and the nonprofit sector and discusses contemporary battles to increase the number of women members of the National Academy of Science and women presidents of scientific societies. Based on nearly one hundred archival collections and more than fifty oral histories.