References -- History of Women in Science & Technology

Abir-Am, Pnina G. and Dorinda Outram. Uneasy Career and Intimate Lives: Women in Science 1789-1997. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. (Book shows historical women who, through cleverness and careful planning, were able to combine both in-depth work in science with time for a family life.)
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. Beacon Press, Boston, 1986. (History of women in the physical and natural sciences and mathematics, beginning with prehistoric times and ending with the late nineteenth century.)
Baylor, Jill S. and Swoboda, Alexis. Women Who Made a Difference: Technological Bridges Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers, SWE. March/April, 1995. pp 16-20. (Features Ada Lovelace, Mary Engle Pennington, Rosalind Franklin, and Grace Hopper)
Brittain, Dr. James E. From Computor to Electrical Engineer -- the Remarkable Career of Edith Clarke. IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. E28, No. 4, Nov. 1985.
Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University, 39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, 908-932-1066, history@ieee.org.
Epstein, Vivian. History of Women in Science for Young People. 1994. (Recommended for pre-school through 5th-grade students. Available from VSE Publisher, 212 S. Dexter St., #91, Denver, CO 80222, 303-322-7450.)
Goff, Alice C. Women Can Be Engineers. Edwards Bros., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1946.
Gornick, Vivian. Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. (Based on various women's perceptions of what it has been like to be a woman in science in America.)
Grinstein, Louise and Campbell, Paul. Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Rd., Windsor, CA 95492-8518. (Gives a historical perspective of women's role in mathematics. Includes Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper.)
Gurer, Denise W. Pioneering Women in Computer Science. Communications of the ACM, Jan. 1995, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 45-54.
Gusen, Aaron. Looking Back: Edith Clarke. IEEE Potentials, Feb. 1994. (This paper is the source for the information provided above.)
Herzenberg, Caroline. Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Locust Hill Press, West Cornwall, CT, 1986.
Holloway, Marguerite. A Lab of Her Own. Scientific American, Nov. 1993, pp. 94 -103. (The story of women in science, including history and statistics.)
Hyde, Ida. Before Women Were Human Beings Journal of the American Association of University Women, 1938. (Ida Hyde's account of the obtacles to women's participation in science. Ida was the first woman to earn a doctorate in physiology from any German University, the first woman to do research at Harvard Medical School, the first woman to acquire membership in American Physiological Society, and the developer of the microelectrode.)
Kass-Simon, Gabriele and Patricia Farnes, editors. Women of Science: Righting the Record Indiana University Press. (A collection of ten articles about women who have made significant contributions to scientific areas ranging from physics to zoology to archaeology. Women mentioned include) Bertha Lamme, Edith Clarke, Jenny Rosenthal, Mildred Dresselhaus, Lillian Gilbreth, Marie Curie and Irene Curie. Includes a discussion of the differences in how men's and women's work are remembered.)
Klug, Aaron. Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Nature, Aug. 24, 1968, pp. 808-810, 843-844.
Levi-Montalcini, Rita. In praise of Imperfection : My Life and Work. New York: Basic Books, 1988. (Autobiography by the winner of a Nobel Prize in medicine.)
Mahon, A. Michal. The Making of a Profession: A Century of Electrical Engineering in America. IEEE Press, 1984.
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize Women in Science : Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries Birch Lane Press, 1993.
National Women's History Project. Founded in 1980 as a nonprofit educational organization to promote the inclusion of multicultural women's history in school curricula, the Project has a mail-order catalog featuring high-quality materials (books, videotapes, posters, and other resources) which celebrate the achievements of American women and which are geared toward middle- and high-school students. The catalog includes offerings relating to women in mathematics, science, and engineering, including a poster of 20 prominent female mathematicians and scientists. The catalog is available from: National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Rd. Dept. P, Windsor, CA 95492, (707)838-6000.
Nies, Kevin A. From Sorceress to Scientist: Biographies of Women Physical Scientists. Lives of Women Scientists, Vol. 1. California Video Institute, P.O. Box 572019, Tarzana, CA, 1990. ISBN 1-880211-01-7. (Workbook to be used at junior and senior high school levels. Includes a list of relevant video programs and computer software.)
Notable American Women--The Modern Period--A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press, 1980.
Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Rd., Windsor, CA 95492-8518.
Opfell, Olga S. The Lady Laureates: The Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1986
Osen, Lynn M. Women in Mathematics, National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Rd., Windsor, CA 95492-8518.
Past Notable Women of Computing
Richter, Derrek. Women Scientists: The Road to Liberation. London: MacMillan Press Ltd, 1982. (Collection of biographies of women scientists throughout the world, including the U.S., India, Japan, Iran, and so on.)
Schiebinger, Londa. Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science. ISIS 1987, Vol. 78, pp. 174-200.
Schiebinger, Londa. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989. (Study of the changing status of women during the rise of modern science over the past several centuries.)
Science is Women's Work: Photos and Biographies of American Women in the Sciences. 1993, National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Rd., Dept. P, Windsor, CA 95492, 707-838-6000.
Vare, Ethlie Ann and Ptacek, Greg. Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb, Forgotten Women and their Unforgettable Ideas. National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Rd., Windsor, CA 95492-8518.
Weisbard, Phyllis Holman, and Apple, Rima D. The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines. 2nd Edition, University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian, Madison, WI, 1993. (View as text)
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