| Description |
256 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published under the title: Successful women in the sciences." |
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Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the New York Academy's Section of Anthropology and Section of Psychology; held in New York City, May 11-13, 1972. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
To autonomous women:an introduction / Ruth B. Kundsin -- Bringing women in: rewards, punishments, and the structure of achievement / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Part I: individual life experiences -- Architect / Gretchen Minnhaar -- Crystallographer / Isabelle L. Karle -- Mathematician / Marian Boykan Pour-El -- Electrical engineer / Mildred S. Dresselhaus -- Physicist / Betsy Ancker-Johnson -- Educator / Millicent C. McIntosh -- Horticulturist / Ernesta Drinker Ballard -- Pediatrician / Gertrude T. Hunter -- Meterologist / Joanne Simpson -- Physician and public health educator / Mary S. Calderone -- Chemist and "eco-freak" / Ruth Weiner -- Consumer specialist / Esther Peterson -- Part II: family attitudes and relationships -- The Kenyan career woman : traditional and modern / Beatrice B. Whiting -- Family dynamics and the successful woman executive / Margaret M. Hennig -- Family constraints on women's work / Lotte Bailyn -- Fathers and autonomy in women / Marjorie M. Lozoff -- Family attitudes and relationships: a summary / Iolanda E. Low -- Part II: the impact of education -- Early childhood influences / Jacqueline Melton Scott -- Sexual stereotypes and the public schools / Florence Howe -- College: when the future becomes the present / Dorothy Zinberg -- Psychological barriers to success in women / Matina S. Horner and Mary R. Walsh -- The impact of education: a summary / Mary G. Ampola -- Part IV: economic factors -- Definitions and data for economic analysis / Carolyn Shaw Bell -- Employment prospects and academic policies / Hilda Kahne -- The economics of women's liberation / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Women and employers: their related needs and attitudes / Felice N. Schwartz -- Part V: determinants in individual life experiences -- Historical determinants and successful professional women / Barbara Miller Solomon -- Making it: marginality and obstacles to minority consciousness / Arlie Hochschild -- Psychological determinants / Jane V. Anderson -- Education: a nuturant if not a determinant of professional success / Mary J. Bunting -- Part VI: Related problems of professional women -- Pregnancy and abortion: implications for career development of professional women / Malkah T. Notman -- The professional woman as mother / Lois Wladis Hoffman -- Marriage with a successful women: a personal viewpoint / Shepard G. Aronson -- Women in academic life / Patricia Albjerg Graham -- Sex hormones and executive ability / Estelle R. Ramey |
| Subject |
Women scientists -- United States -- Congresses.
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Women scientists. |
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United States. |
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Success -- Congresses.
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Success. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Kundsin, Ruth B., 1916-
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New York Academy of Sciences. Section of Anthropology.
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New York Academy of Sciences. Section of Psychology.
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| Added Title |
Successful women in the sciences.
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| ISBN |
0688002293 $7.95 |
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