Women in Science and Engineering - Choices for Success (Hardcover)

This volume comprises papers that assess whether, where and how progress has taken place in the 25 years since the Academy held a conference entitled "Women in Science: Determinants of Success" and recommend ways of accelerating it on the basis of research and the "best practices" to be found in corporate, government and academic institutions. The participants and presenters come from large and small industries, colleges and universities, and government agancies; they also represent a cross section of the scientific world, ranging from student to Nobel laureate. The shared perspective of the conference was that increased diversity must be aided and abetted through substantive changes in the attitudes, policies and practices that inform how we educate and evaluate the workforce and how we manage the workplace.