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The Curie Society
"An action-adventure original graphic novel, following a team of young women recruited by an elite secret society--originally founded by Marie Curie--with the mission of supporting the most brilliant female scientists in the world. The heroines of the Curie Society use their smarts, gumption, and cutting-edge technology to protect the world from rogue scientists with nefarious plans. Follow rec…
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- 0262371758
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- 1 online resource (163 pages) :color illustrations.
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Find your path :Unconventional lessons from 36 leading scientists and engineers
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- 9780262354837
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- 1 online resource (408 pages).
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There's nothing micro about a billion women :making finance work for women
"The full financial inclusion of women will lead to significant advances in global economic development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368315
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Women and climate change :examining discourses from the Global North
"This book investigates how women have been cast with regard to climate change science and policy-making, such as roles as victims, drivers of change, laborers, and saviors"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372664
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Girls coming to tech! :a history of American engineering education for women
"Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher educ…
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- 9781461957249
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- 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) :illustrations.
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Recoding gender :women's changing participation in computing
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases. Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek” seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence…
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- 9780262305464
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- 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) :illustrations.
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The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users…
This is a biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD. The book illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298452
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages).
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Why So Slow?: The Advancement of Women
Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implicit hypotheses about gender differences—gender schemas—that create small sex differences in characteristics, behavior…
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Women and information technology :research on underrepresentation
Experts investigate the reasons for low female participation in computing and suggest strategies for moving toward parity through studies of middle and high school girls, female students and postsecondary computer science programs, and women in the information technology workforce.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255929
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 500 pages) :illustrations
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Women in Mathematics
The colorful lives of these women, who often traveled in the most avant-garde circles of their day, are presented in fascinating detail. The obstacles and censures that were also a part of their lives are a sobering reminder of the bias against women still present in this and other fields of academic endeavor. Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively …
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