Women's History Month: Women's History Month 2013

The Madame Curie Complex reveals how women scientists have often asked different questions, used different methods, come up with different explanations for phenomena in the natural world, and how they have forever transformed a scientist's role.

This book exposes the hidden barriers that confront women at every juncture along the scientific career path. Its vivid personal accounts offer a sobering view of the effects these obstacles have on the personal and professional lives of women. The authors argue that women can succeed in the scientific workplace by successfully managing "social capital," those networks and relationships scientists rely on for professional support and new ideas.

This book focuses on the challenges facing women who seek to create innovative entrepreneurial ventures, whilst also celebrating their scientific activities and contribution to technological advancement, society and economic development as a whole. It investigates and demonstrates the innovative and inventive achievements of women in the knowledge based society.

Do women do science differently? And how about feminists--male or female? The answer to this fraught question, carefully set out in this provocative book, will startle and enlighten every faction in the "science wars." Has Feminism Changed Science? is at once a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge.

Feminist science studies is a relatively new and exciting field. Women, Science and Technology will fast become the definitive choice for readers seeking an introduction to the way feminism is changing science studies.

A comprehensive historical review of the debates surrounding women's contributions and roles in science, with emphasis on women's access to education, training, and professional careers.

Women have played a primary role in computer programming since its origins in the mid-1800s. When computers became a reality in the late 1940s, the world's first programmers were women.

The work of Marie and Pierre Curie was recognized as fundamental throughout the scientific community. Marie won national prizes such as the Berthelot Medal and the Gegner Prize.

Women have been and remain underrepresented in science. During the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century aristocratic women were active as both patrons and interlocutors of natural philosophers.