Women scientists in America : forging a new world since 1972 /

This third volume in Rossiter's series on American women scientists picks up where Volume 2 left off, in the 1970s, and ends with the start of the new millennium. While each text acts as a stand-alone history, they build on the knowledge shared in the previous volumes to form a comprehensive picture of the struggles and victories of women scientists through the years. Volume 3 begins with a revolution in communication and acknowledgement. Where many of the early pioneers in America's scientific history are overlooked owing to gender, through the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond they fought for equal recognition and opportunity to their male counterparts. Each chapter of this text, organized mostly by chronology, looks at a part of that fight. The epilog concludes with the first woman winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.ÅVerdict For those studying the history of science or the history of women in the United States, this text is essential. The perspective offered here will give readers a broader view than many other texts in the field.-Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen, Oregon Inst. of Technology Lib., Portland (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.