Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sustaining Gains: Re®ections on Women in Science andTechnology in the Twentieth-Century United States -- 2. From "Engineeresses" to "Girl Engineers" to "Good Engineers":A History of Women's U.S. Engineering Education -- 3. Using POWRE to ADVANCE: Institutional Barriers Identi¤ed byWomen Scientists and Engineers -- 4. Telling Stories about Engineering: Group Dynamics andResistance to Diversity -- 5. The Gender Gap in Information Technology -- 6. African American Women in Science: Experiences from HighSchool through the Post-secondary Years and Beyond -- 7. African Women Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Sciences:Racism, Gender Bias, and Third World Marginality -- 8. Gendered Experiences in the Science Classroom -- 9. The Construction of Sexual Bimorphism and Heterosexuality inthe Animal Kingdom -- 10. Feminism and Science: Mechanism without Reductionism -- 11. Across the Language Barrier: Gender in Plant Biology andFeminist Theory -- 12. The Graduate Experience of Women in STEM and How It CouldBe Improved -- 13. How Can Women and Students of Color Come to Belong inGraduate Mathematics? -- 14. Designing Gender-Sensitive Computer Games to Close theGender Gap in Technology -- 15. Making Sense of Retention: An Examination of UndergraduateWomen's Participation in Physics Courses -- 16. Creating Academic Career Opportunities for Women in Science:Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges -- 17. Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement ofWomen in Academia -- Selected Readings -- Contributors -- Index.