List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The New Era
List of Abbreviations
1. From "Sisterhood" to Interest Group: Learning to Lobby
2. Taking on Academia: Tokenism, "Revolving Doors," and Lawsuits to
1985
3. Taking Advantage of Undergraduate Openings: Impetus to
Ever-Broadening Reforms
4. Innovative Outreach: Expanding Girls' Options and
Opportunities
5. Using Science to Fight Back: Equal Opportunity at the Women's
Colleges
6. Surviving the "Minefields" in Graduate School
7. Postdoctoral Pathways: Preparation, Holding Pattern, or
Jumping-Off Point?
8. Industrial and Self-Employment: Entering Wedges and
Entrepreneurs
9. Federal Employment: Lawsuits and Presidential Appointees
10. Nonprofit Alternatives: Speeding Up, Moving In, On, and Even
Up
11. Academia after Rajender: Programs, Publicity, and Pressures
12. Taking the Scientific Societies beyond Recognition
Epilogue: A New Era of Institutional Contrition and
"Transformation"
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Margaret W. Rossiter is the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science at Cornell University and former editor of Isis and Osiris. Her prize-winning books Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 and Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 are also published by Johns Hopkins . Professor Rossiter was a MacArthur Fellow from 1989 until 1994.
Rossiter gives the foundation, on the basis of which it is possible for other scholars to ask and answer such questions. Nor does she discuss in her books, what feminism is and other theoretical questions. Her style of work is very meticulous and scholarly, as she digs up all the names and all the facts, and she is a very knowledgeable historian and a skilled and sophisticated statistician. Her last mentioned quality is of course of special value to us mathematicians. Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter Rossiter's extraordinarily detailed account offers compelling data alongside the multiple stories of individual women, both those thwarted by discrimination and those who emerged as outstanding success stories... This book should be read by skeptics who don't believe that there is persisting prejudice. It also provides inspiration and ideas for those who relish the stories of women who now deservedly do make history. -- Georgina M. Montgomery Science Rossiter has performed a herculean task, gathering and synthesizing an abundance of information into a narrative that shows both the positive developments that have taken place since 1972 and the many challenges that remain. -- Arleen Marcia Tuchman American Historical Review
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