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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 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

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"L'auteur montre qu'il a existé une véritable discrimination vis-à-vis des femmes quant à la possibilité qu'elles participent à la constitution des savoirs. Pire, il y eut dans l'histoire de très grandes figures de femmes scientifiques trop souvent occultées. Elles ont ajouté à leur génie de savantes le courage de leur lutte pour s'imposer dans un monde masculin des sciences. Depuis Hypatie assassinée sur les pavés d'Alexandrie par les fanatiques chrétiens à Lise Meitner injustement privée de prix Nobel, en passant par la Marquise du Châtelet et Marie Curie, ce livre rend justice aux femmes en sciences. En astronomie, en mathématiques, en physique, en chimie, en biologie, en médecine, elles ont été sur tous les fronts de la recherche, pionnières dont il est peut-être temps de sortir les noms de l'oubli en rappelant ce que furent leur vie, leurs combats et leur succès." -- 4ème de couverture

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"Eileen Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and 70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale, where, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate, summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university's first two women to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist. Years later, Pollack revisited her reasons for walking away from the career she once had coveted. She spent six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates and dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science. In addition, Pollack talked to experts in the field of gender studies and reviewed the most up-to-date research that seeks to document why women and minorities underperform in STEM fields. Girls who study science and math are still belittled and teased by their male peers and teachers, even by other girls. They are led to think that any interest or achievement in science or math will diminish their popularity. They are still being steered away from advanced courses in technical fields, while deeply entrenched stereotypes lead them to see themselves as less talented than their male classmates, a condition that causes them to fulfill such expectations and perform more poorly than the boys sitting beside them. "--

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