Motherhood, the Elephant (the book)

 

 

 

 

Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out

Emily Monosson, Editor

About half of the undergraduates and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in these highly competitive (and often male dominated) fields with the demands of motherhood. ….

The personal stories that comprise Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory not only show the many ways in which women can successfully combine motherhood and a career in science but also address and redefine what it means to be a successful scientist….

Advance Praise for Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory:

“At last-a book to convince women scientists that there is life beyond the professoriate. These brief life stories demonstrate that women professionals do not have to play by men’s rules to have a career. They also show the world that women scientists are not only
literate but also witty.”

Phoebe Leboy, University of Pennsylvania, President, Association for Women in Science

“Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory is an engaging, moving, and informative book. It depicts the challenge of combining a career in science with motherhood, using the voices of real women to prortray the diversity of possible experiences.”

Jo Handlesman, Howard Hughs Medical Institute Professor and Chair, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“The stories in Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory are captivating and the picture of science as a field was truly sobering. I found myself thinking about the authors’ fascinating stories long after I finished reading this book.”

Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law

Contributors

A. Pia Abola, San Francisco, California

Caroline (Cal) Baier-Anderson, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Environmental Defense

Joan S. Baizer, University at Buffalo

Stefi Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology

Aviva Brecher, US Department of Transportation, Volpe Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Teresa Capone Cook, American Heritage Academy

Carol B. de Wet, Franklin & Marshall College

Kimberly D’Anna, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anne Douglass, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Elizabeth Douglass, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Katherine Douglass, George Washington University

Deborah Duffy, University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca A. Efroymson, U.S. government research laboratory

Suzanne Epstein, Food and Drug Administration

Kim M. Fowler, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Debra Hanneman, Whitehall Geogroup, Inc. and Earthmaps.com

Deborah Harris, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

Andrea L. Kalfoglou, University of Maryland

Marla S. McIntosh, University of Maryland

Marilyn Wilkey Merritt, George Washington University

Emily Monosson, Montague, Massachusetts

Heidi Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rachel Obbard, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, England

Catherine O’Riordan, Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Nanette J. Pazdernik, O’Fallon, Illinois

Devin Reese, National Science Resources Center

Marie Remiker (pseudonym)

Deborah Ross, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Christine Seroogy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marguerite Toscano, Smithsonian Institution

Gina D. Wesley-Hunt, Montgomery College

Theresa M. Wizemann, Merck & Co., Inc.

Sofia Refetoff Zahed, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gayle Barbin Zydlewski, Cove Brook Watershed Council, Maine; University of Maine

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Cornell Catalog description.