Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The article describes the situation of female scientists in STEM fields. The author presents two main strategies which had to be used by those women in order to keep themselves in male scientific world – they were working as ”invisible assistants” of men (brothers, fathers, husbands), contributing to their successes, or they pretended to be men (disguise, nicknames, etc.). Showing profiles of female Nobel laureates and providing statistics on women in STEM in Poland, the author wonders if contemporary science has been changing towards increasing women’s representation.
Author: Anna Knapińska
Institution: National Information Processing Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4242847874