TY - BOOK AU - Gornick,Vivian TI - Women in science: then and now T2 - Women writing science SN - 9781558615878 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - Q 130 .G67 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - The Feminist Press at The City University of New York KW - Women in science N1 - First published: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1983, under title: Women in science : portraits from a world in transition; Includes index; Who are these people, and what do they think they're doing? -- Women in science : half in, half out -- Women in science : demystifying the profession N2 - For general readers, Gornick, a memoirist, essayist, and critic, draws from interviews with about 100 women to describe their experiences as scientists and the contributions they made to biology, chemistry, physics, physiology, experimental psychology, and other sciences, addressing issues of discrimination and stereotypes along the way. Updated to include recent developments, this revised edition has been published on the 25th anniversary of the book's first publication and as part of the Women Writing Science Project of the National Science Foundation ER -