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Author Zippel, Kathrin S., author

Title Women in global science : advancing academic careers through international collaboration / Kathrin Zippel
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages)
Contents A world of opportunity : science, gender, and collaboration -- Traveling abroad, coming home : ambivalent discourses on the U.S. role in global science -- The .edu bonus : gender, academic nationality, and status -- Glass fences : gendered organization of global academia -- Families and international mobility : fences or opportunities? -- Toward an inclusive world of (global) academia
Summary Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. Women in Global Science is the first book to consider systematically the challenges and opportunities that the globalization of scientific work brings to U.S. academics, especially for women faculty. Kathrin Zippel looks to the STEM fields as a case study, where gendered cultures and structures in academia have contributed to an underrepresentation of women. While some have approached underrepresentation as a national concern with a national solution, Zippel highlights how gender relations are reconfigured in global academia. For U.S. women in particular, international collaboration offers opportunities to step outside of exclusionary networks at home. International collaboration is not the panacea to gendered inequalities in academia, but, as Zippel argues, international considerations can be key to ending the steady attrition of women in STEM fields and developing a more inclusive academic world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 13, 2017)
Subject Women scientists -- United States.
Career development -- United States
Women in science -- United States
Science -- International cooperation.
SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching.
Career development
Science -- International cooperation
Women in science
Women scientists
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016030430
ISBN 9781503601505
1503601501