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Penetrating the Tungsten Barrier:


A Survival Guide for Female Scientists and Engineers


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Short Description: Written for women, but useful for anyone who aspires to be a scientist. The author lays it all out from how to choose a career to getting along with co-workers. In between she tells you how to choose a school, get research funding, and how to play the game of politics. Do you want to be taken seriously? Do you want to understand at least some of what's happening in the halls and laboratories of your institution? Do you want a guidebook through the land of scientific culture? Read this book.

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Avenging Agnodice:

The Struggles and Successes of Female Scientists,

Antiquity to Present

A two part book about the struggles and successes of female scientists: past and present.

Short Description: Throughout history the environment for female scientists has been at best exclusionary, at worst it has been openly hostile. Why would anyone voluntarily expose themselves to an environment where they are unwanted and unwelcome? What were the obstacles the women scientists had to overcome and how did they succeed to the extent that we even know their names? This book is an attempt to answer these questions, both for women of the past and the present.

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