Women and Scientific Employment

By: J. Glover

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Paperback | 1 April 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Women and Scientific Employment combines rich empirical data and theoretical discussion on the 'problem' of women's representation in scientific education and employment. Making a plea for the different scientific disciplines to be examined separately, it contributes to public policy debates on the sciences and to sociolog-ical knowledge on women's professional employment. A major conclusion is that a science can contain either a few or many women but they are equally likely to be concentrated in low level positions. There is little evidence from Britain, USA or France - the three countries focused on - that high levels of 'getting in' (quantitative feminization) lead to correspondingly high levels of 'getting on' (vertical feminization). Clear general implications for research, policy and data-gathering on women's employment follow from this conclusion: there needs to be a renewed emphasis on the examination of vertical segregation within particular occupations. Encouraging women to enter the sciences has only a weak connection with their retention and advancement.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Miscellaneous Items Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality Sociology & Anthropology Social Classes

List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Does the Issue of 'Women and the Sciences' Matter?	p. 16
British Women in Scientific Education and Employment	p. 35
Women Scientists in France and the USA	p. 61
Is Physics the Issue?	p. 88
Explaining Women's Representation in the Sciences	p. 107
Exclusions: American Women of Science	p. 139
Issues Arising	p. 167
Index	p. 187
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