African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era focuses on contemporary women who have benefited from the Civil Rights Act and are now working as chemists or chemical engineers.

This book talks about Black women scientists and their scientific contributions, struggles, strategies, and triumphs.

A celebratory and inspiring look at some of the most important Black women in STEM.

This collection of seventeen original essays explores the interplay between marriage and scientific work in the lives of two dozen couples in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Biographical essays on 23 women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the 20th century, including Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Irene Joliot-Curie, and a host of lesser-known women scientists whose life stories have never been told before.

Famous and not-so-famous women and men are recognized for their achievements in education, politics, science, medicine, exploration, music, literature, and sports.

Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Swaby’s vivid profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one’s ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they’re best known. This fascinating tour reveals 52 women at their best—while encouraging and inspiring a new generation of girls to put on their lab coats.

Short biographies of eight women who excelled in various scientific fields: Ellen Swallow Richards, Nettie Maria Stevens, Annie Jump Canon, Alice Hamilton, Florence Sabin, Alice Catherine Evans, Grace Murray Hopper, and Gertrude Belle Elion.

This book questions this stereotype and the assumption that the practitioners of science and engineering have a uniform look and follow one particular path through life.

When Fay Ajzenberg-Selove became a nuclear physicist, the number of women in the field could be counted on one hand.

Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them -- about 3 percent -- have been women.

Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the present.

This book provides a description of the women who made original and important contributions to physics in the twentieth century, documenting their major discoveries and putting their work into its historical context.

Movement into academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been slow for women and minorities.

Resilience and Success charts the education and career trajectories of African American women scientists and sheds light as to why young African American females drop off the science map in high school.

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.

This book examines the career development of female scientific pioneers. Drawing from existing biographical and ethnographical data, the author analyzes the life and career histories of ten extraordinary female scientists.

The author explores the lives and alchemist practice of some outstanding women. This book covers the history of science, biography, classical Jungian psychology, women’s studies, theology, and even the occult sciences. Readers will learn about sixteenth to seventeenth century politics, religion, scientific inquiries, and medical discoveries.

This book provides a comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science.

Profiles the careers and lives of leading women scientists and inventors, including Lise Meitner who discovered nuclear fission, Virginia Apgar who developed Apgar score, and Jane Goodall who discovered that chimpanzees have similar social behavior to humans.

History of American women scientists focuses on their pioneering efforts and contributions from 1972 to the present. Central to this story are the struggles and successes of women scientists in the era of affirmative action.

Zierdt-Warshaw, Winkler and Bernstein have compiled a diverse compendium of biographies of leading American women in the field of technology.

This book explores the career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers.

While this book is geared toward women who are considering getting into tech, or those who want to take their career to the next level, it combines the practical career advice with inspiring personal stories from successful female tech professionals Brianna Wu the founder of Giant Spacekat, Angie Chang, thefounder of Women 2.0, Keren Elazari, a TED speaker and cybersecurity expert, Katie Cunningham, aPython educator and developer, Miah Johnson, asenior systems administrator, Kristin Toth Smith, atech executive and inventor, and Kamilah Taylor, amobile app and social network developer.

A collection of eleven essays based on scholarly research, it explores many of the ways women have affected technological change historically and how technology has impinged on them. Both European and American topics, from the eighteenth century into the twentieth, are included, although the United States in the last 100 years is the focus.