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Book SynopsisMagdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique challenges that women with serious scientific aspirations face. In addition to addressing challenges and the unjustifiable underrepresentation of women at the higher levels of academia, Hargittai takes a balanced approach by discussing how some of the most successful of these women have managed to obtain professional success and personal happiness.Women Scientists portrays scientists from different backgrounds, different geographical regions-eighteen countries from four continents-and leaders from a variety of professional backgrounds, including eight Nobel laureate women. The book is divided into three sections: Husband and Wife Teams, Women at the Top, and In High Positions. Hargittai uses her own experience to
Trade ReviewThis book will be of interest to both upcoming and established women in science, their children and families, as well as historians. * Karen Swider Lyons, MRS Bulletin *
The book fulfils the authors wish to show women scientists as they are and encourage others to follow, and should prove valuable to all those interested in how women are progressing in fields formerly, and still often, deemed as masculine. * Ruth Watts, Gender and History *
Table of ContentsContents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Husband and Wife Teams ; At the Top ; In High Positions ; Final Thoughts ; Notes ; Index
