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How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering?For much of America's history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists an
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Willie Pearson Jr, Vijay Reddy
The world is not an equal place. There are high- and low-income countries and high- and low-income households. For each group, there are differential educational opportunities, leading to differential educational outcomes and differential labor marke
Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized kn
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National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on Status and Participation of Women in STEM Disciplines and Careers, Willie Pearson, Jr, Lisa M. Frehill, Catherine Didion
The scientific work of women is often viewed through a national or regional lens, but given the growing worldwide connectivity of most, if not all, scientific disciplines, there needs to be recognition of how different social, political, and economic
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Willie Pearson, Jr
The book provides significant insight into the factors that affect the careers of these scientists and, importantly, gives voice to the many men and women who overcame discrimination, prejudice, and racism to build successful scientific careers. Alth
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Contemporary Sociology. 24:753
The question "Who will do science?" is one of growing urgency in the United States. Fewer US college students are choosing to study maths, science, and engineering, and half of those who do eventually switch to non-science majors. Moreover, US studen