Information Science Reference Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields (Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership)

Product Description Women are typically not well represented in STEM fields. These same women experience difficulties in advocacy and leadership, as well as hiring and promotion. Women of color, regardless of discipline, face this narrative daily and often throughout their entire careers. Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields seeks to critically examine the strategies that women across class and cultural groups use and the struggles they face in order to become successful in professional fields that include business, politics, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. While highlighting topics that include higher education, workplace perceptions, and information literacy, this publication is ideal for public administrators, human resources professionals, sociologists, academicians, researchers, and students interested in gender studies, public administration, the biological sciences, psychology, computer science, and the STEM fields. About the Author Ursula Thomas currently serves as the Director of Field Experience and Assessment at Georgia Perimeter College. Her extensive research with teacher knowledge gives her the insight needed to help teachers adopt age appropriate strategies that are culturally relevant. She has presented and consulted on program evaluation and assessment at national conferences such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. Dr. Thomas has carved out a professional development niche as well. She has more than 20 publications in the fields of early childhood teacher education, social justice, and cultural mediation.Jill Drake is a mathematics education professor at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. Dr. Drake has served the mathematics education community as a teacher, professor, and consultant for the past 25 years.