Are there any places where women succeed in science? Numerous studies in recent years have documented and lamented a gender gap in science and engineering. From elementary school through college, women's interest in science steadily declines, and as adults, they are less likely to pursue careers in science-related fields.Women's Science offers a dramatic counterpoint not only to these findings but also to the related, narrow assumption that "real science" only occurs in research and laboratory investigation. This book describes women engaged with science or engineering at the margins: an innovative high school genetics class; a school-to-work internship for prospective engineers, an environmental action group, and a nonprofit conservation agency. In these places—where people use or rely on science for public, social, or community purposes—the authors found a remarkably high proportion of women. Moreover, these women were successful at learning and using technical knowledge, they advanced in roughly equal percentages to men, and they generally enjoyed their work.Yet, even in these more marginal workplaces, women had to pay a price. Working outside traditional laboratories, they enjoy little public prestige and receive significantly less financial compensation. Although most employers claimed to treat men and women equally, women in fact only achieved success when they acted like male professionals.Women's Science is an original and provocative contribution that expands our conception of scientific practice as it reconfigures both women's role in science and the meaning of science in contemporary society.

Product Description: This gorgeously packaged little book celebrates trees and their life-affirming presence in our lives. The earth's longest living organisms, trees exemplify nature's great strength as well as its majestic beauty. Serving as virtual lungs for our planet, trees provide us with food, medicine, and our most versatile building material...read more

Product Description: Are there any places where women succeed in science? Numerous studies in recent years have documented and lamented a gender gap in science and engineering. From elementary school through college, women's interest in science steadily declines, and as adults, they are less likely to pursue careers in science-related fields...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers detailed instructions on how to plant and care for three types of trees, including a paper birch, northern white cedar, and Colorado blue spruce, and is accompanied by a package of seeds for each type of tree. Original. IP.

Discusses the selection and planting of trees, provides tips on the care of both young and old trees, and lists popular ornamental trees

Discusses trees and their contributions to the natural world and to human society, and suggests that young readers plant their own tree. Includes seeds, propagation-grade soil, a sprouting container, and instructions for tree planting.

Product Description: Book by Lockyear, Frank, Gray, Robert

Discusses the selection, planting, and care of trees, details the characteristics of more than 160 species, and includes information on tree-planting programs (view table of contents)

Illustrates and describes planting, transplanting, fertilizing, pruning, and removal of trees in the home garden