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A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science / Rita Colwell, PhD, and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
A memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
Colwell, the first female director of the National Science Foundation, discusses the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system. When she first applied for a graduate fellowship in bacteriology, she was told, "We don't waste fellowships on women." Over her six decades in science, as she encounters other women pushing back against the status quo, Colwell also witnessed the advances that could be made when men and women worked together. Here she offers an astute diagnosis of how to fix the problem of sexism in science-- and a celebration of the women pushing back.-- adapted from jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501181276
- ISBN: 1501181270
- Physical Description: xv, 268 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-254) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Hidden no more -- No, girls can't do that! -- Alone: a patchwork education -- It takes a sisterhood -- The power of sunlight -- Cholera -- More women = better science -- The anthrax letters -- From Old Boys' Clubs to Young Boys' Clubs to philanthropists -- It's not personal-- it's the system -- We can do it. |
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. |
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A Lab of One's Own : One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
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A Lab of One's Own : One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
Rita Colwell is a pioneering microbiologist and the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation. She is a Distinguished University Professor at both the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health and has received awards from the emperor of Japan, the king of Sweden, the prime minister of Singapore, and the president of the United States. She is the author of A Lab of One's Own . Sharon Bertsch McGrayne is the author of five books on the history of science, including Nobel Prize Women in Science, The Theory That Would Not Die , and A Lab of One's Own , which she coauthored with Rita Colwell. She lives in Seattle.
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