Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields
- 6h 3m
- Jill Drake, Ursula Thomas
- IGI Global
- 2019
Women are typically not well represented in STEM fields. These same women experience difficulties in advocacy and leadership, as well as hiring and promotion. Women of color, regardless of discipline, face this narrative daily and often throughout their entire careers.
Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields seeks to critically examine the strategies that women across class and cultural groups use and the struggles they face in order to become successful in professional fields that include business, politics, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. While highlighting topics that include higher education, workplace perceptions, and information literacy, this publication is ideal for public administrators, human resources professionals, sociologists, academicians, researchers, and students interested in gender studies, public administration, the biological sciences, psychology, computer science, and the STEM fields.
About the Authors
Ursula Thomas currently serves as the Director of Field Experience and Assessment at Georgia Perimeter College. Her extensive research with teacher knowledge gives her the insight needed to help teachers adopt age appropriate strategies that are culturally relevant. She has presented and consulted on program evaluation and assessment at national conferences such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. Dr. Thomas has carved out a professional development niche as well. She has more than 20 publications in the fields of early childhood teacher education, social justice, and cultural mediation.
Jill Drake is a mathematics education professor at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. Dr. Drake has served the mathematics education community as a teacher, professor, and consultant for the past 25 years.
In this Book
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Societal Factors and Workplace Perceptions: Understanding Social Determinants of Professional STEM Achievement and Persistence for Black Women
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Navigating the Landscape of the STEM Professoriate: Reflections and Insights From Women of Color
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What Sports Do You Play? Actually, My Major Is Mathematics: Experiencing STEM as a Woman of African Descent
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Overcoming the Layers of Obstacles: The Journey of a Female African American Physicist to Achieve Equity, Diversity, and Inclusiveness
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Creating Support Systems for Black Women in Nontraditional STEM Career Paths
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Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in STEM Careers: One Woman's Experience Teaching in a STEM Field
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Grace Under Fire
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Fortitude: A Study of African Americans in Surgery in New York City
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Knowledge Sharing Practices, ICT, Information Literacy, and STEM Career Path Choices Among Girls at the Secondary School Level: Girls and STEM Education
