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Women in Science : Career Processes and Outcomes
Women in Science Career Processes and Outcomes Author:Kimberlee A. Shauman, Yu Xie Why do so few women choose a career in science—even as they move into medicine and law in ever-greater numbers? In one of the most comprehensive studies of gender differences in science careers ever conducted, Women in Science provides a systematic account of how U.S. youth are selected into and out of science education in early life, and ... more »how social forces affect career outcomes later in the science labor market. "Do young women take fewer mathematics and science courses in high school than young men, leaving them less prepared and therefore less likely to major in science and engineering fields in college? Is a woman with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering more likely to have begun her college career as a science major, or on a non-science track? This book, ten years in the making, offers definitive and surprising answers to these and other long-standing questions about women in science." —Abigail J. Stewart and Danielle LaVaque-Manty, Nature "The most carefully argued and well-documented investigation of both the gender differences in science and the reason women leave science presently available … important and praiseworthy." —M. H. Chaplin, Choice« less