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Advancing Women in Science An International Perspective /

Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pearson, Jr., Willie. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Frehill, Lisa M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McNeely, Connie L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Subjects:
Management.
Industrial management.
Social policy.
Globalization.
Markets.
Sociology.
Innovation/Technology Management.
Social Policy.
Emerging Markets/Globalization.
Gender Studies.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08629-3
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Ch 1 Introduction
  • Part I Cross Cultural Foundational Issues
  • Ch 2 Women’s Enrollments in STEM in Higher Education
  • Ch 3 Gender, Science and Occupational Sex Segregation
  • Ch 4 Building Knowledge to Narrow the Gender Divide
  • Part II Exemplar Disciplines
  • Ch 5 Data on Women in the Scientific Workforce
  • Ch 6 Women in Mathematics
  • Ch 7 Women in Statistics
  • Ch 8 Computer Science
  • Part III Policies and Programs
  • Ch 9 Promising Programs—A Cross-National Exploration of Women in Science, Education and Workforce
  • Ch 10 Advancing Women in Science: Policies for Progress
  • Postscript.

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