Women of color in STEM navigating the workforce / edited by Julia Ballenger, Texas A & M University-Commerce, Barbara Polnick, Sam Houston State University, Beverly lrby, Texas A & M University.

Other author Ballenger, Julia, 1949-
Other author Polnick, Barbara.
Other author Irby, Beverly J.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCharlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
Descriptionxvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Variant title Women of color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
SeriesResearch on women and education
Research on women and education. ^A1080040
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I. Women of color in STEM : resilience and opportunity. What Plato took for granted : an examination of the first five African female mathematicians and what that says about resistance to the western epistemological canon / Nicole M. Joseph -- Women of color in the STEM academic workplace / Lindsay Johnson, Kecia M. Thomas, and Lindsay Brown -- Breaking barriers : inspiring stories about NASA women of color / Lisa Brown, Andrea Foster, and Barbara Polnick -- Mathematics literacy, identity resilience, and opportunity sixty years since Brown v. Board : counternarratives of a five-generation family / Jacqueline Leonard, Erica N. Walker, and Nicole M. Joseph -- Part II. Women of color in STEM : stories of struggles and success. The fulfillment of a mother's dream : an African woman's story of struggle and success in science / Cailisha L. Petty and Catherin Dinitra White -- Navigating the STEM landscape : examining the role of spatial reasoning for women of color / Samina Hadi-Tabassum -- Diversity in STEM? : challenges influencing the experiences of African American female engineers / Delores Rice -- Present but not accounted for : examining how intersectional identities create a double bind for and affect leadership of women of color in educational settings / Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, Danielle D. Dickens, Gabe H. Miller, and Carla A. Zimmerman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017394221
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