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_aBix, Amy Sue, _eauthor. _924233 |
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_aGirls coming to tech! : _ba history of American engineering education for women / _cAmy Sue Bix. |
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_aCambridge, Massachusetts ; _aLondon, England : _bMIT Press, _c[2013] |
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_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2014] |
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| 490 | 1 | _aEngineering studies series | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aRare 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. | |
| 506 | 1 | _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. | |
| 520 | _aEngineering 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. | ||
| 530 | _aAlso available in print. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. | ||
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_aEngineering _xStudy and teaching _zUnited States _xHistory. _924234 |
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_aWomen in higher education _zUnited States _xHistory. _924235 |
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_aWomen in engineering _zUnited States _xHistory. _924236 |
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_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _924237 |
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_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _924238 |
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_iPrint version _z9780262019545 |
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_aEngineering studies series. _924239 |
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_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6731152 |
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