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  • "A Hand Up comes into your hands at an exciting point for women in science in the United States. While women make up a majority of the total population, they continue to be a decided minority in science-1988 National Science Foundation figures show that overall only 16 percent of scientists and engineers are women (1992, p. 4). The climate, however, is changing, and the contributors to this book-women who are succeeding in science, mathematics, or engineering and female students who are moving toward scientific careers in the near future-are part of the impetus. Another push is the widely accepted prediction that women and minority group members will make up about two-thirds of the new entrants to the workforce around the turn of the century (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1991), along with the recognition that, to be effective, this new workforce must be well-educated in general and in particular in science and technology.Many women in science are recognizing that not only should the numbers change but also the field itself. Science, long dominated by male metaphors as well as by men, must at least become gender neutral in numbers and method, or, better, incorporate the best that masculine and feminine approaches offer. As the male scientists and students who have overwhelmingly populated science in the past know well, one of the factors that can make or break a career commitment to science is the presence at certain crucial points of a mentor. Lucky children are guided by sensitive and friendly adults, happy youth by inspired and committed teachers, and fortunate adults by experienced colleagues and friends. All these are mentoring relationships. Because of the makeup of the field, in the past mentors for both men and women in science have been overwhelmingly male. But, as women become a larger presence among students and faculty and among research, industrial, and academic scientists and seeking mentors and for those willing to serve as guides. In these pages, nearly 60 women provide their insights, advice, and assistance to those who would become a woman in science or to those already there who would, if they could, become less isolated." (Verlagsinformation) (xsd:string)
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  • 1995 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 1995 (xsd:gyear)
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  • A hand up: women mentoring women in science (xsd:string)
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  • Washington: 1995.- XX, 352 S., Photos, graph. Darst. (xsd:string)
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