True Stories of Women Engineers celebrates the contributions of women engineers to every aspect of modern life.

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field.

Throughout the 19th century, women inventors developed significant technologies, yet, because of complex cultural barriers and the pervasive image of the inventor as male, their technological contributions have until now been ignored and undervalued. This study, the first to focus exclusively on 19th-century women, explores the fascinating relationship between women and technology.

In her memoirs, biomedical engineer Monique Frize, recalls the events in her life that taught her to overcome obstacles, become more resilient, to recognize the importance of mentors and role models and remain focused on the future, to recognize the critical role played by family and friends in maintaining the strength and determination required to succeed.

Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers introduces the visionary women who opened the door for today s female engineers.

This book exposes the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work.

The role of minority and women mathematicians in developing our American mathematical community is an important but previously under-told story.

This volume features substantive biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics from antiquity to the present.

More than 14 percent of the PhD's awarded in the United States during the first four decades of the twentieth century went to women, a proportion not achieved again until the 1980s.

In early 1945, the United States military was recruiting female mathematicians for a top-secret project to help win World War II. Betty Jean Jennings (Bartik), a twenty-year-old college graduate from rural northwest Missouri, wanted an adventure, so she applied for the job. She was hired as a computer, a human to calculate artillery shell trajectories for Aberdeen Proving Ground Later, she joined a team of women who programmed the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC).

Women mathematicians of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and how they built professional identities in the face of social and institutional obstacles.

Julia is the story of Julia Bowman Robinson, the gifted and highly original mathematician who during her lifetime was recognized in ways that no other woman mathematician had ever been recognized.