How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.
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 education.
As Bix explains, a few women breached the gender-reinforced boundaries of engineering education before World War II. During World War II, government, employers, and colleges actively recruited women to train as engineering aides, channeling them directly into defense work. These wartime training programs set the stage for more engineering schools to open their doors to women. Bix offers three detailed case studies of postwar engineering coeducation. Georgia Tech admitted women in 1952 to avoid a court case, over objections by traditionalists. In 1968, Caltech male students argued that nerds needed a civilizing female presence. At MIT, which had admitted women since the 1870s but treated them as a minor afterthought, feminist-era activists pushed the school to welcome more women and take their talent seriously.
In the 1950s, women made up less than one percent of students in American engineering programs; in 2010 and 2011, women earned 18.4% of bachelor's degrees, 22.6% of master's degrees, and 21.8% of doctorates in engineering. Bix's account shows why these gains were hard won.
Автор: O`Quinn Название: Girls` Literacy Experiences In and Out of School ISBN: 041589736X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415897365 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How do American girls compose and amend their identities? In this text prominent scholars in their respective fields examine the complex social and cultural constructions that script girls` gender, identity, and literacy both in and out of school.
Автор: Greene Sheila Название: Psychological Development of Girls and Women ISBN: 0415730171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415730174 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A thoroughly revised update of Sheila Greene`s original and transformative perspective on the psychological development of girls and women which emphasizes the central role of time in shaping all human experience and life trajectories.
Автор: O`Quinn Название: Girls` Literacy Experiences In and Out of School ISBN: 0415897378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415897372 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How do American girls compose and amend their identities? In this text prominent scholars in their respective fields examine the complex social and cultural constructions that script girls` gender, identity, and literacy both in and out of school.
Автор: Chen Название: Tiger Girls ISBN: 0415600138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415600132 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What might be expected from a developing country like China with a significant number of women in the labour force? Do the traditional values of male superiority still stay the same in the background of China`s great social change? This book examines the deeper realities of women entrepreneurs in China.
Автор: Albisetti James C Название: Girls` Secondary Education in the Western World ISBN: 1137405554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137405555 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4191.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The history of secondary education for girls in the western world is explored through the lens of the gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes and upper classes of the past centuries, juxtaposed against the relatively recent democratization of European educational systems.
Автор: Faye Z. Belgrave Название: African American Girls ISBN: 1461415179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461415176 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7406.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunityto conduct research and interv- tion programming with African American girls. Each chapter covers the most current literature on African American adolescent girls, and reviews and discusses ways in which they are similar to and unique from girls in other ethnic groups and from African American boys.
Автор: Weber, Sandra Dixon, Shanly Название: Girls and the online world ISBN: 140397814X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403978141 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgounds use digital technology in their everyday lives. They explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play.
Описание: Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett unravel the pseudoscientific rationales for the popular argument that the learning styles, brain development, motivations, cognitive and spatial abilities, and "natural" inclinations of girls and boys are fundamentally different. While they recognize that girls and boys encounter different stimuli and experiences, they also show that encouraging children to venture outside their comfort zones can help them realize more multifaceted characters. Educating parents, teachers, and general readers in the true nature of the gender game, Rivers and Barnett enable future generations to transform--if not transcend--the parameters of sexual difference.
Автор: Pomerantz, Shauna Название: Girls, style, and school identities ISBN: 1403982066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403982063 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Writing against the grain of popular perception and moral panic, Pomerantz offers an intricate look at the importance of style for girls in school. Based on a year long ethnography in a Canadian high school, Pomerantz highlights style as a meaning-making practice that demands to be taken seriously.
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