Women in global science
Subtitle: advancing academic careers through international collaboration
By: Kathrin Zippel
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781503600393; 9781503601499
Subjects: International cooperation; Women in science; Women scientists; Science; Career development
Description: 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. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: A world of opportunity : science, gender, and collaboration; title: Traveling abroad, coming home : ambivalent discourses on the U.S. role in (global) science; title: The .edu bonus : gender, academic nationality, and status; title: Glass fences : gendered organization of global academia; title: Families and international mobility : fences or opportunities?; title: Toward an inclusive world of (global) academia.