Making Science Fair
How Can We Achieve Equal Opportunity for Men and Women in Science?
American prosperity and military superiority cannot be maintained with the current shortage of scientists with advanced degrees. How we arrived at this crisis-the embedding of scientific research at male-dominated universities-is less important than what we do to redress it. Approximately ten percent of full professors in the S.T.E.M. disciplines in the United States, and four percent of full professors in physics and engineering, are women, one of the lowest rates among highly developed nations. Top scientists with African-American, Latino, or American Indian ancestry are barely represented. Ultimately, the solution to this gender imbalance…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7618-3795-4
- EAN: 9780761837954
- Produktnummer: 3095048
- Verlag: University Press Of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 126 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 195 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 195
Über den Autor
Robert Leslie Fisher was educated in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School, a special school for science oriented students, and has degrees in Sociology from City College of New York (B.A. cum laude) and Columbia University (M. Philosophy). Before embarking on a career as an independent scholar, Mr. Fisher had a varied career in New York State government as a criminal justice planner, research contracts officer, and program evaluator. He is also the author of The Research Productivity of Scientists: How Gender, Organization Culture, and the Problem Choice Process Influence the Productivity of Scientists, published by University Press of America (2005).
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