Offering a dramatic counterpoint to the findings that from elementary school through to college, women's interest in science steadily declines, and that "real science" only occurs in research and laboratory investigation, this text describes women engaged with science or engineering at the margins. In an innovative high school genetics class, a school-to-work internship for prospective engineers, an environmental action group and a nonprofit conservation agency, the authors found a high proportion of women who were successful at learning and using technical knowledge, and advancing in equal percentages to men. This text explores how women still had to pay a price, working outside traditional laboratories, receiving less financial compensation and little public prestige, unless they acted like male professionals.
- ISBN10 0226195449
- ISBN13 9780226195445
- Publish Date 15 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 May 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English