Robert Leslie Fisher

Crippled at the Starting Gate (eBook, ePUB)

The Graduate Schools Created and Perpetuate the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Crippled at the Starting Gate, Robert Leslie Fisher argues that the United States needs an education bill, much like the G.I. Bill passed after World War II, to send more Americans to graduate school in the sciences and engineering. Equally important, the graduate schools need to change their culture not only to recruit more women, African-Americans, and Latinos into science, but to promote them to senior faculty positions. Accomplishing these changes in university science and engineering departments will be challenging since the institutions have a strong propensity to recruit white males similar to the overwhelmingly white male senior faculty. In Making Science Fair (2007), Fisher urged new productivity metrics to assure that more women can advance in science. Now Fisher urges ending burdensome educational practices including requiring women and foreign graduate students to teach under-graduates, which adversely affects both the graduate students and the undergraduates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761849124
• Artikelnr.: 39047605

Autorenporträt

Robert Leslie Fisher is an independent researcher and author of The Research Productivity of Scientists and Invisible Student Scientists. He attended Stuyvesant High School, a special school for science-oriented students, and has degrees in sociology from City College of New York (B.A. cum laude), and Columbia University (M. Phil.). Prior to retiring in 2003, Fisher had a varied career as a criminal justice planner, research contracts officer, and program evaluator in New York State government. He is now an author and director of a nonprofit consulting organization in the Capital District of New York. Fisher is the author of three previous nonfiction books about the gender gap in science, all published by University Press of America, and has contributed articles on medical research. He also published Vanilla Republic, a mystery novel.