Girls coming to tech! : (Record no. 73355)
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| control field | 6731152 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204820.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 151223s2014 maua ob 001 eng d |
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| ISBN | 9780262320269 |
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| -- | electronic |
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| -- | electronic |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 620.0071/073 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Bix, Amy Sue, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Girls coming to tech! : |
| Sub Title | a history of American engineering education for women / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (xii, 360 pages) : |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Engineering studies series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | Rare invaders: the pre-World War II history of women in American engineering -- World War II: emergency engineering employment training -- New wartime and postwar engineering majors: purdue, RPI, Columbia -- Coeducation via lawsuit: Georgia Tech -- Coeducation for social life: Caltech -- A special case: women at MIT -- Changing the climate. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher education. As Bix explains, a few women breached the gender-reinforced boundaries of engineering education before World War II. During World War II, government, employers, and colleges actively recruited women to train as engineering aides, channeling them directly into defense work. These wartime training programs set the stage for more engineering schools to open their doors to women. Bix offers three detailed case studies of postwar engineering coeducation. Georgia Tech admitted women in 1952 to avoid a court case, over objections by traditionalists. In 1968, Caltech male students argued that nerds needed a civilizing female presence. At MIT, which had admitted women since the 1870s but treated them as a minor afterthought, feminist-era activists pushed the school to welcome more women and take their talent seriously.In the 1950s, women made up less than one percent of students in American engineering programs; in 2010 and 2011, women earned 18.4% of bachelor's degrees, 22.6% of master's degrees, and 21.8% of doctorates in engineering. Bix's account shows why these gains were hard won. |
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| General subdivision | Study and teaching |
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| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | History. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6731152 |
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| Koha item type | eBooks |
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| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; |
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| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | [2013] |
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| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2014] |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Engineering |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Women in higher education |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Women in engineering |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 2 | |
| -- | United States. |
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