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Equity for women in science : dismantling systemic barriers to advancement / by Sugimoto, Cassidy R.,author.(CARDINAL)867286; Larivière, Vincent,author.(CARDINAL)865847;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Production -- Collaboration -- Contributorship -- Funding -- Mobility -- Scientific Impact -- Social Institutions -- Recommendations and Conclusion."The success of the scientific endeavor depends on a robust workforce. Unfortunately, the scientific workforce fails to be representative of the population. This failure to adequately utilize human capital has strong consequences for progress and innovation. This book examines the labor of women in science. Combining an extensive analysis of several international datasets on scholarly publications, research funding, and survey results, The Labor of Science provides an empirical account of the various ways the gender gap is observed in the scientific community and combines these findings with anecdotes and profiles of women in science that provide historical context and guide the empirical analysis"--
Subjects: Women in science.; Sex discrimination against women.; Sex discrimination in science.; Sex discrimination in employment.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Not just for the boys : why we need more women in science / by Donald, A. M.1953-Author(Athene Margaret),(DLC)n 90675980 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-265) and index.Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific workforce? Not Just For the Boys looks back at how society has historically excluded women from the scientific sphere and discourse, what progress has been made, and how more is still needed. Athene Donald, herself a distinguished physicist, explores societal expectations during both childhood and working life using evidence of the systemic disadvantages women operate under, from the developing science of how our brains are--and more importantly aren't--gendered, to social science evidence around attitudes towards girls and women doing science. It also discusses how science is done in practice, in order to dispel common myths: for example, the perception that science is not creative, or that it is carried out by a lone genius in an ivory tower, myths that can be very off-putting to many sections of the population. A better appreciation of the collaborative, creative, and multi-disciplinary nature of science is likely to lead to its appeal to a far wider swathe of people, especially women. This book examines the modern way of working in scientific research, and how gender bias operates in various ways within it, drawing on the voices of leading women in science describing their feelings and experiences. It argues the moral and business case for greater diversity in modern research, the better to improve science and tackle the great challenges we face today.
Subjects: Women in science; Sex discrimination in science.; Sex discrimination against women.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science / by Colwell, Rita R.,1934-author.; McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch,author.(CARDINAL)373334;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-254) and index.A memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Colwell, Rita R., 1934-; Scientists; Women microbiologists; Sexism in science.; Women in science.; Sex discrimination in science.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Unmasking AI : my mission to protect what is human in a world of machines / by Buolamwini, Joy,author.(CARDINAL)878895;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308)."Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art--disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the "Future Factory," Buolamwini's groundbreaking research revealed that AI systems--from leading tech companies--were consistently failing on non-male, non-white bodies. In Unmasking AI, Buolamwini goes beyond the news headlines about racism, colorism, and sexism in Big Tech to tell the remarkable story of how she uncovered what she calls "the coded gaze"-evidence of racial and gender bias in tech-and galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both tech industry and research sector, Buolamwini shows how race, gender, and ability bias can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity vulnerable in our AI-dependent world. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them"--
Subjects: Buolamwini, Joy.; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Discrimination in science.; Sex discrimination in science.;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 16
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Women and girls in STEM fields : a reference handbook / by Page, Heather Burns,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Authoritative and engaging, this one-stop resource provides a valuable overview of the past, present, and future of women and girls in STEM fields"--Grades 10-12
Subjects: Women in science; Women in science; Sex discrimination in science; Sex discrimination in higher education; Sex discrimination against women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Women in science now : stories and strategies for achieving equity / by Munoz, Lisa M. P.,author.(CARDINAL)878642;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Women in science; Sex discrimination in science; Sex discrimination against women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Her space, her time : how trailblazing women scientists decoded the hidden universe / by Ghose, Shohini,author.(CARDINAL)878171;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This book tells the stories of women physicists from around the world who transformed science. Many of them discovered invisible objects in the universe, and all wore a cloak of invisibility throughout their careers. Their remarkable stories of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership and overcoming invisibility deserve to go viral"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Women physicists; Women astronomers; Physicists; Astronomers; Women in physics.; Women in astronomy.; Sex discrimination in science.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Sex segregation in librarianship : demographic and career patterns of academic library administrators / by Irvine, Betty Jo.(CARDINAL)143544;
Bibliography: pages 153-166.
Subjects: Library administrators.; Sex discrimination in employment.; Sex discrimination against women.; Women in library science.; Women librarians.; Library surveys.; Academic libraries;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Science on the home front : American women scientists in World War II / by Jack, Jordynn,1977-(CARDINAL)494589;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Women psychologists forecast opportunity -- Women anthropologists study Japanese internment -- Women physicists on the Manhattan Project -- Women nutritionists on the National Research Council.
Subjects: Feminism and science; Sex discrimination in science; Women in science; Women scientists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Predatory data : eugenics in big tech and our fight for an independent future / by Chan, Anita Say,Author(DLC)nb2014009065;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index."Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data. While technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritized actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice"--.
Subjects: Technology; Discrimination in science; Eugenics; Quantitative research; Big data;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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