Women and Scientific Employment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 1-15

3. Does the Issue of ‘Women and the Sciences’ Matter?

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 16-34

4. British Women in Scientific Education and Employment

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 35-60

5. Women Scientists in France and the USA

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 61-87

6. Is Physics the Issue?

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 88-106

7. Explaining Women’s Representation in the Sciences

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 107-138

8. Exclusions: American Women of Science

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 139-166

9. Issues Arising

   • Judith Glover

   Pages 167-185

10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-190

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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. A distinction is made throughout between 'quantitative feminization' and 'vertical feminization' - a distinction which is frequently confused in policy on women and the sciences. Comparisons are made with the USA and France, revealing considerable similarity with the UK. The case is put for the different scientific disciplines to be examined separately, both empirically and theoretically.

• education
• employment
• USA
• women

• School of Sociology and Social Policy, Roehampton Institute London, UK

  Judith Glover

JUDITH GLOVER is Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Roehampton Institute, London. She has directed, with Jane Fielding, an ESRC-funded project 'Gender and Science, Engineering and Technology', 1994-7. She is currently directing a research project funded by the Directorate-General XII of the European Commission, which is mapping the data on women and the sciences in all member states.

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