Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science de Donald, Athene - 2023

Oxford University Press, 5/11/2023 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Like New. 1.2598 8.7795 5.6693.

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Oxford University Press, 2023. 9780192893406. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. x + 276, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).

New. 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… Leer más

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