Women in science: A fair shake?

Minerva

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 185-199

  Etzkowitz, Henry ^a,c,d   Gupta, Namrata ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33745595597     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11024-006-0007-7     Document Type: Review

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2. Cornelia Dean, 'For Some Girls, the Problem with Math Is That They're Good at It', The New York Times, 1 February 2005, Section F, 3.
3. See Virginia Valian, Why So Slow: The Advancement of Women (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
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7. Virginia Postrel, 'Some Economists Say the President of Harvard Talks Just Like One of Them', The New York Times, 2005, 2 Ibid.
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11. Quoted in Committee of Women Faculty Members, 'Motivation and Education of Stanford Women Students', April 1958, Terman Papers, Stanford University Archives, Series 3 SC160, box 61, folder 2.
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13. Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen (ed.), Women in Science: Token Women or Gender Equality? (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1991).
14. Indian National Science Academy, 'Science Careers for Indian Women: An Examination of Indian Women's Access to and Retention in Scientific Careers', October 2004, http://www.insaindia.org/Scienceservice/science.htm, accessed on 4 May 2005.
15. Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt, Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000).
16. Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, and Brian Uzzi, Athena unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 83-104.
17. See, for example, J. Glover, 'Highly Qualified Women in the "New Europe": Territorial Sex Segregation', European Journal of Industrial Relations (forthcoming);
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19. Robert Kohler, Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 36, 94-96.
20. Etzkowitz, Kemelgor, and Uzzi, Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life op. cit. note 16, 153-154.
21. Namrata Gupta and Arun K. Sharma, 'Triple Burden among Women Scientists in India: A Sociological Study of Women Faculty at Some Reputed Centres of Higher Learning and Research', Social Action, 51 (4), (2001), 395-416.
22. Namrata Gupta and Arun K. Sharma, 'Triple Burden among Women Scientists in India: A Sociological Study of Women Faculty at Some Reputed Centres of Higher Learning and Research', Social Action, 51 (4), (2001), 395-416 Ibid.
23. Namrata Gupta, Carol Kemelgor, Stephan Fuchs, and Henry Etzkowitz, 'The "Triple Burden": A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Consequences of Discrimination for Women in Science', in Gender and Excellence in the Making (Brussels: Directorate-General for Research, European Commission, 2004), 41-50.
24. Robin Wilson, 'An MIT Professor's Suspicion of Bias Leads to a New Movement for Academic Women', Chronicle of Higher Education, 46, (3 December 1999), A16-18.
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33. A classic example is that of Lise Meitner, who was forced to walk several blocks to a nearby hotel, due to a lack of sanitary facilities at the institute in pre-war Berlin, where she was grudgingly allowed to have a basement lab. See Ruth Sime, Lise Meitner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 23-45.
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36. Barbara Goldsmith, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), 192-194.
37. Cornelia Dean, 'National Academy of Sciences Elects 19 Women, A New High', The New York Times, 5 May 2005, Section A, 20.
38. Lawrence Summers, talk to the National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science in April, 2005, http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/ nsaws.html, accessed 5 May 2005.