Women in Science: Then and Now
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558615873 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Something for Future Curies This was given as a gift to a young woman who is a PhD candidate in chemistry.She loved the book--to be a woman in a "hard" science still has its significant challenges, and young women in particular are often amazed at what grit the women going before them had, and what grit it is going to take them to "go where no man has gone before."Reading about your role models, or finding role models, is a wonderful th. "An excellent read for any woman thinking of science as a career" according to Midwest Book Review. Science is no longer strictly a boy's club. "Women in Science: Then and Now" takes a look at the history of women in science, from when male scientists stated that a woman's inferior mind couldn't handle science, to today's fields where women are curing diseases and doing astrophysics work - in some cases better than any man can. Interviewing scientists of all shapes and sizes, author Vivian Gornick provides . SS said Great. Great book for women in science and for aspiring women in science! It was a great fun informative read that gave personal accounts to get a true glimpse of what is going on inside the science academia.
Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced.. In their hyphenated identity is captured the pain and excitement of a culture struggling to mature.”The Washington PostIn this newly revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women’s expectations that they can and will succeed.Everything from the disparaging comments by Harvard’s then-president to government reports and media coverage has focused on the ways in which women supposedly can’t do science. Gornick’s original interviews show how deep and severe discrimination against women was back then in all scientific fields. Gornick’s portraits demonstrate t
"Gornick is a gifted writer and her poetic descriptions of the excitement of scientific research and the passion of those who work as scientists is inspirational. In their hyphenated identity is captured the pain and excitement of a culture struggling to mature.”The Washington Post. This is an important book that, if anyone needed evidence, demonstrates that true equality for women, particularly in the field of scientific research, still seems so far away." The Sydney Morning Herald"Women in Science opens the discussion about women's diverse problems and ambitions in science." New York Times Book Review"It is women as subject, the women in science, rather than the women of science, that Vivian Gornick treats in a series of vignettes based on