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 Info | Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017] |
| Description | xvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Women of color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| Series | Research 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 note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017394221 |
| ISBN | 9781681237060 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1681237067 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781681237077 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1681237075 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |