Laura Micheletti Puaca
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469610818
- eISBN:
- 9781469614441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469610818.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines how the mobilization and militarization of American science during the Second World War facilitated the expansion of opportunities to women in scientific fields. The ...
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This chapter examines how the mobilization and militarization of American science during the Second World War facilitated the expansion of opportunities to women in scientific fields. The identification of scientific manpower as a national security priority, coupled with the drafting of college-aged men, enabled reformers to promote the education and employment of female scientists. The chapter also investigates women’s wartime experiences as scientists, engineers, and technical aides, paying particular attention to the continued resistance that they faced as well as the postwar backlash that they encountered.Less
This chapter examines how the mobilization and militarization of American science during the Second World War facilitated the expansion of opportunities to women in scientific fields. The identification of scientific manpower as a national security priority, coupled with the drafting of college-aged men, enabled reformers to promote the education and employment of female scientists. The chapter also investigates women’s wartime experiences as scientists, engineers, and technical aides, paying particular attention to the continued resistance that they faced as well as the postwar backlash that they encountered.
Sue V. Rosser
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814776452
- eISBN:
- 9780814771525
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814776452.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Why are there so few women in science? This book uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and ...
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Why are there so few women in science? This book uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and the physical sciences. The book shows that these continuing trends are not only disappointing, they are urgent: the U.S. can no longer afford to lose the talents of the women scientists and engineers, because it is quickly losing its lead in science and technology. Ultimately, these biases and barriers may lock women out of the new scientific frontiers of innovation and technology transfer, resulting in loss of useful inventions and products to society.Less
Why are there so few women in science? This book uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and the physical sciences. The book shows that these continuing trends are not only disappointing, they are urgent: the U.S. can no longer afford to lose the talents of the women scientists and engineers, because it is quickly losing its lead in science and technology. Ultimately, these biases and barriers may lock women out of the new scientific frontiers of innovation and technology transfer, resulting in loss of useful inventions and products to society.
