Women of Color in STEM - Navigating the Workforce

Women of Color in STEM - Navigating the Workforce

von: Julia Ballenger, Barbara Polnick, Beverly Irby

IAP - Information Age Publishing, 2016

ISBN: 9781681237084 , 225 Seiten

Format: PDF

Kopierschutz: DRM

Windows PC,Mac OSX Apple iPad, Android Tablet PC's

Preis: 62,33 EUR

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Women of Color in STEM - Navigating the Workforce


 

Cover

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Series page

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Women of Color in STEM

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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Contents

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Foreword

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Introduction

12

PART I: WOMEN OF COLOR IN STEM: RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY

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CHAPTER 1: What Plato Took for Granted

22

CHAPTER 2: Women of Color in the STEM Academic Workplace

58

CHAPTER 3: Breaking Barriers

76

CHAPTER 4: Mathematics Literacy, Identity Resilience, and Opportunity Sixty Years Since Brown v. Board

98

PART II: WOMEN OF COLOR IN STEM: STORIES OF STRUGGLES AND SUCCESS

128

CHAPTER 5: The Fulfillment of a Mother’s Dream

130

CHAPTER 6: Navigating the STEM Landscape

154

CHAPTER 7: Diversity in STEM?

176

CHAPTER 8: Present But Not Accounted For

200

About the Editors

222

About the Contributors

224