Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-237) and index.

Gendered Responses to Failure in Undergraduate Computing : Evidence, Contradictions, and New Directions / Enobong Hannah Branch and Sharla Alegria -- Is College Enough? Gender Disparities in the Use of Science and Engineering Degrees in the Workforce / Margaret L. Usdansky and Rachel A. Gordon -- Women Faculty in Computing: A Key Case of Women in Science / Mary Frank Fox and Kathryn Kline -- Does the Road Improve in the Land of the Tenured? Exploring Perceptions of Culture and Satisfaction by Rank and Gender / Julia McQuillan, Mary Anne Holmes, Patricia Wonch Hill, and Mindy Anderson-Knott -- Potholes and Detours on the Road to Full Professor: A Tale of STEM Faculty at Two Liberal Arts Colleges / Catherine White Berheide -- Crisis of Confidence: Young Women Doing Gender and Science / Laurel Smith-Doerr, Timothy Sacco, and Angela Stoutenburgh -- Who's the Expert? Gendered Conceptions and Expressions of Expertise by Chemists-in-Training / Laura E. Hirshfield -- The Postdoc Pothole: The Changing Segmentation of the Biomedical Research Workforce, 1993-2008 / Lisa M. Frehill -- The Long Shadow of Immigration Policy: "Apropriate Work" and Wage Inequality in U.S. Tech Work / Sharla Alegria and Cassaundra Rodriguez -- Pathways for Women in Global Science / Kathrin Zippel -- Agency of Women of Color in STEM: Individual and Institutional Strategies for Persistence and Success / Maria Ong, Lily T. Ko, and Apriel K. Hodari -- Smooth Roads to Promotion: Creating Data-Guided and Community-Generated Changes for Eliminating Bumps and Potholes / Julia McQuillan, Mary Anne Holmes, Patricia Wonch Hill, and Mindy Anderson-Knott.

"Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative model that better articulates the ideas of agency, constraint, and variability along the path to scientific careers for women. The chapters in this volume apply the metaphor of the road to a variety of fields and moments that are characterized as exits, pathways, and potholes. The scholars featured in this volume engaged purposefully in translation of sociological scholarship on gender, work, and organizations. They focus on the themes that emerge from their scholarship that add to or build on our existing knowledge of scientific work, while identifying tools as well as challenges to diversifying science. This book contains a multitude of insights about navigating the road while training for and building a career in science."-- Provided by publisher.

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