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Title:

Women in STEM careers : international perspectives on increasing workforce participation, advancement and leadership / edited by Diana Bilimoria (KeyBank Professor and Professor and Chair of Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, USA), Linley Lord (Associate Professor and Director, Maureen Bickley Centre for Women in Leadership, Curtin University, Australia).

Publisher:

Edward Elgar,

Copyright Date:

c2014

Description:

xviii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women in science.
Women in technology.
Women in engineering.
Women in mathematics.

Other Authors:

Bilimoria, Diana, 1960-
Lord, Linley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

An introduction to women in STEM careers: international perspectives on increasing workforce participation, advancement and leadership / Diana Bilimoria, Linley Lord and Melissa Marinelli -- Women persisting in the engineering profession: the role of the ideal self and engagement / Kathleen Buse and Diana Bilimoria -- To stay or to leave: factors that differentiate women currently working in engineering from those who left the profession / Romila Singh, Nadya A. Fouad, Mary Fitzpatrick, Catia Figueiredo and Wen Hsin Chang -- Deciding to stay or go: understanding the career intentions of women in the Australian mining industry / Margaret Nowak, Melissa Marinelli, Linley Lord and Dede Bonner -- Family issues for women engineers / Mary Ayre, Julie Mills and Judith Gill -- Onwards and upwards: insights from women managers and leaders in engineering / Melissa Marinelli and Linley Lord -- Women as power resources: putting theory into practice / Charlotte Holgersson, Pia H©œ©œk and Anna Wahl -- Effective practices to increase women's participation, advancement and leadership in US academic STEM / Diana Bilimoria and Xiangfen Liang -- Professional societies and gender equity in STEM / Erin L. Cadwalader, Joan M. Herbers and Alice B. Popejoy -- Gender equality interventions in the STEM fields: perceptions, successes and dilemmas / Marieke van den Brink and Lineke Stobbe -- Dare to care: negotiating organizational norms on combining career and care in an engineering faculty / Channah Herschberg, Claartje J. Vinkenburg, Inge L. Bleijenbergh and Marloes L. van Engen -- 'Engineering is gendered' is a threshold concept / Sally Male.

ISBN:

9781781954065
1781954062

OCLC:

(OCoLC)897092072

LCCN:

2014938764

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)