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Article: The Equity Equation: Fostering the Advancement of Women in the Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering.
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- College Teaching
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Equity Equation: Fostering the Advancement of Women in the Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering is a sourcebook that reviews in great detail the issues involved in the presence of women in the sciences, math, and engineering. One of the basic goals of the book is to "ground future intervention and funding on a firm research base." This book accomplishes that goal, and others, admirably.
The editors and contributors to the book have been thinking and writing about these issues for quite some time, and their expertise shows. This book is set out in a rational order, roughly going from early education, through college, graduate school, and finally employment ...