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General Titles Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c1998. 455 p. Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c1994. The Biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Edited by Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey. New York, Routledge, 2000. 2 v. (1499 p.) Blazing a path: Japanese women’s contributions to modern science. Translation by Japan Echo Inc. Tokyo, Committee for the Encouragement of Future Scientists, c2001. 46 p. Creese, Mary R. S., and Thomas M. Creese. Ladies in the laboratory?: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributions to research. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 1998. 452 p. Creese, Mary R. S., and Thomas M. Creese. Ladies in the laboratory II: West European women in science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributions to research. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 2004. 290 p. Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century. James H. Kessler and others. Phoenix, AZ, Oryx Press, 1996. 382 p. Haines, Catharine M. C., and Helen M. Stevens. International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2001. 383 p. Hooker, Claire. Irresistible forces: Australian women in science. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2004. Lilavati’s daughters: the women scientists of India. Edited by Rohini Godbole and Ram Ramaswamy. Bangalore, Indian Academy of Sciences, c2008. 368 p. McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries. Rev. ed. Secaucus, NJ, Carol Pub. Group, 1998. 451 p. My life: twenty Japanese women scientists. Edited by Yoshihide Kozai and others. Tokyo, Uchida Rokakuho, c2001. 318 p. Notable Black American scientists. Edited by Kristine Krapp. Detroit, Gale Research, c1999. 349 p. <SciRR> Notable women scientists. Edited by Pamela Proffitt. Detroit, Gale Group, c1999. 668 p. Oakes, Elizabeth H. International encyclopedia of women scientists. New York, Facts on File, c2002. 448 p. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. Women in science: antiquity through the nineteenth century: a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c1986. 254 p. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, and Kerry Lynne Meek. Women and science: an annotated bibliography. New York, Garland Pub., 1996. 556 p. (Garland reference library of social science, v. 859) Oleksy, Walter G. Hispanic-American scientists. New York, Facts on File, c1998. 120 p. Paths to discovery: autobiographies from Chicanas with careers in science, mathematics, and engineering. Edited by Norma E. Cantú. Los Angeles, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, c2008. 237 p. Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 584 p. Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: struggles and strategies to 1940. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, c1982. 439 p. Sisters in science: conversations with Black women scientists about race, gender, and their passion for science. Interviews by Diann Jordan. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Press, c2006. 240 p. Women in science. Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, c2001. 421 p. Women of science: righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes; Associate editor, Deborah Nash. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, c1990. 398 p. Yount, Lisa. A to Z of women in science and math. Rev. ed. New York, Facts On File, c2008. 368 p. Yount, Lisa. Asian-American scientists. New York, Facts on File, c1998. 112 p. Zierdt-Warshaw, Linda, Alan Winkler, and Leonard Bernstein. American women in technology: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2000. 384 p. Specialized TitlesEducation, Recruitment, and Career Beyond bias and barriers: fulfilling the potential of women in academic science and engineering. Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering; Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2007. 317 p. Bowman, Marjorie A., Erica Frank, and Deborah I. Allen. Women in medicine: career and life management. 3rd ed. New York, Springer, c2002. 187 p. From scarcity to visibility: gender differences in the careers of doctoral scientists and engineers. Edited by J. Scott Long. Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Panel for the Study of Gender Differences in the Career Outcomes of Science and Engineering Ph.D.s, National Research Council. Washington, National Academy Press, c2001. 311 p. Lazarus, Barbara B., Lisa M. Ritter, and Susan A. Ambrose. The woman’s guide to navigating the Ph.D. in engineering & science. New York, IEEE Press, c2001. 105 p. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Opportunities to Address Clinical Research Workforce Diversity Needs for 2010. Opportunities to address clinical research workforce diversity needs for 2010. Edited by Jong-on Hahm and Alexander Ommaya. Washington, National Academies Press, c2006. 131 p. Pan-African Workshop for African Women in Science and Engineering (1999, Nairobi, Kenya). African women in science and engineering: a vision for the 21st century: proceedings of the Pan African workshop, 29th November to 4th December 1999, Nairobi, Kenya. Edited by M. O. Imbuga and others. Nairobi, African Women in Science and Engineering, c2003. 531 p. Subrahmanyan, Lalita. Women scientists in the third world: the Indian experience. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, c1998. 301 p. Success strategies for women in science: a portable mentor. Edited by Peggy A. Pritchard. Burlington, MA, Elsevier Academic Press, c2006. 316 p. To recruit and advance: women students and faculty in science and engineering. Committee on the Guide to Recruiting and Advancing Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2006. 131 p. Tolley, Kimberley. The science education of American girls: a historical perspective. New York, RoutledgeFalmer, 2003. 287 p. Varma, Roli. Harbingers of global change: India’s techno-immigrants in the United States. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, c2006. 201 p. Williams, F. Mary, and Carolyn J. Emerson. Becoming leaders: a practical handbook for women in engineering, science, and technology. Reston, VA, American Society of Civil Engineers, c2008. 199 p. Women and information technology: research on underrepresentation. Edited by J. McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, c2006. 500 p. Women and minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: upping the numbers. Edited by Ronald J. Burke and Mary C. Mattis. Cheltenham, Eng., Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, c2007. 379 p. Women in scientific careers: unleashing the potential. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2006. 228 p. Anthropology and Exploration African-American pioneers in anthropology. Edited by Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, c1999. 296 p. Burns, Robin. Just tell them I survived!: women in Antarctica. Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin, 2001. 232 p. Women anthropologists: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Ute Gacs and others. New York, Greenwood Press, 1988. 428 p. Aviation and Astronautics Gubert, Betty Kaplan, Miriam Sawyer, and Caroline M. Fannin. Distinguished African Americans in aviation and space science. Westport, CT, Oryx Press, 2002. 319 p. Welch, Rosanne. Encyclopedia of women in aviation and space. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c1998. 286 p. Earth and Environmental Sciences Breton, Mary Joy. Women pioneers for the environment. Boston, Northeastern University Press, c1998. 322 p. Holmes, Madelyn. American women conservationists: twelve profiles. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, c2004. 202 p. QH26.H66 2004 Kaufman, Polly Welts. National parks and the woman’s voice: a history. Updated ed. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2006. 312 p. The Role of women in the history of geology. Edited by C. V. Burek and B. Higgs. London, Geological Society, c2007. 342 p. (Geological Society special publication, no. 281) Made from this earth: American women and nature. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c1993. 368 p. Rooney, Frances. Exceptional women environmentalists. Toronto, Second Story Press, c2007. 110 p. Sweeping the earth: women taking action for a healthy planet. Edited by Miriam Wyman. Charlottetown, PEI, Gynergy, c1999. 357 p. Health, Medicine, and Psychology Black psychiatrists and American psychiatry. Edited by Jeanne Spurlock. Washington, American Psychiatric Association, c1999. 228 p. Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth. The path we tread: Blacks in nursing worldwide, 1854-1994. 3rd ed. New York, National League of Nursing Press, c1995. 329 p. Contemporary minority leaders in nursing: Afro-American, Hispanic, Native American perspectives. Edited by Helen S. Miller and Ernest D. Mason. Kansas City, MO, American Nurses’ Association, c1983. 155 p. Durrett, Deanne. Healers. New York, Facts on File, Inc., c1997. 131 p. (American Indian lives) Epps, Charles H., Davis G. Johnson, and Audrey L. Vaughan. African-American medical pioneers. Rockville, MD, Betz Pub. Co., c1994. 254 p. Henderson, Metta Lou. American women pharmacists: contributions to the profession. New York, Pharmaceutical Products Press, c2002. 221 p. Kirschmann, Anne Taylor. A vital force: women in American homeopathy. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, c2004. 230 p. Scrivener, Laurie, and J. Suzanne Barnes. A biographical dictionary of women healers: midwives, nurses, and physicians. Westport, CT, Oryx Press, 2002. 340 p. Windsor, Laura Lynn. Women in medicine: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2002. 259 p. Women in psychology: a bio-bibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Agnes N. O’Connell and Nancy Felipe Russo. New York, Greenwood Press, 1990. 441 p. Life Sciences Bonta, Marcia. Women in the field: America’s pioneering women naturalists. College Station, Texas A & M University Press, c1991. 299 p. Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1996. 440 p. Pioneering women in plant pathology. Edited by Jean Beagle Ristaino. St. Paul, MN, APS Press, c2008. 339 p. Women in the biological sciences: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Carol A. Biermann, and Rose K. Rose. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997. 609 p. Mathematics Green, Judy, and Jeanne LaDuke. Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD’s. Providence, RI, American Mathematical Society; London, London Mathematical Society, c2009. 349 p. (History of mathematics, v. 34) Kenschaft, Patricia C. Change is possible: stories of women and minorities in mathematics. Providence, RI, American Mathematical Society, c2005. 212 p. Notable women in mathematics: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1998. 302 p. Women of mathematics: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell. New York, Greenwood Press, 1987. 292 p. QA28.W66 1987 <SciRR> Physical Sciences Notable women in the physical sciences: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997. 479 p. Out of the shadows: contributions of twentieth-century women to physics. Edited by Nina Byers and Gary Williams. Cambridge, Eng., New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 471 p. Successful women in chemistry: corporate America's contribution to science. Edited by Amber S. Hinkle and Jody A. Kocsis. Washington, American Chemical Society; Distributed by Oxford University Press, c2005. 202 p. (ACS symposium series, 907) Rayner-Canham, Marelene F., and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham. A devotion to their science: pioneer women of radioactivity. Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, c1997. 307 p. Rayner-Canham, Marelene F., and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. Women in chemistry: their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century. Washington, American Chemical Society; Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998. 284 p. Women in chemistry and physics: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam H. Rafailovich. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1993. 721 p. Technology and Invention Macdonald, Anne L. Feminine ingenuity: women and invention in America. New York, Ballantine Books, 1992. 514 p. Sluby, Patricia Carter. The inventive spirit of African Americans: patented ingenuity. Westport, CT, Praeger, c2004. 313 p. Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and daughters of invention: notes for a revised history of technology. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1993. 1116 p. Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of invention: from the bra to the bomb: forgotten women & their unforgettable ideas. New York, Quill, 1989. 256 p. Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently female: from AZT to TV dinners: stories of women inventors and their breakthrough ideas. New York, Wiley, c2002. 220 p. Selected JournalsAAPI Journal: the Journal of Indian American Physicians R11.A27 Aviation for Women TL553.A94 AWIS Magazine Q149.U5A88a Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology TA1.H58 Hispanic Health Care International: the Official Journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses RA448.5.H57H556 Journal of National Black Nurses’ Association: JNBNA RT1.J64 Journal of the National Medical Association R15.N2914 Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering Q130.J678 The Minority Engineer: ME TA157.M52 SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers TA1.S18 US Black Engineer and Information Technology TA1.U52 Woman Engineer TA157.W64 Library of Congress Guides American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States LC Science Tracer Bullet: African American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines LC Science Tracer Bullet: Biographical Resources in the Sciences LC Science Tracer Bullet: Biographical Sources in the Sciences -- General Works and National Sources LC Science Tracer Bullet: Biographical Sources in the Sciences -- Life, Earth and Physical Science (1989-2006) LC Science Tracer Bullet: Blacks in the Sciences and Related Disciplines LC Science Tracer Bullet: Women in the Sciences Science Reference Guides: National Hispanic Heritage Month 2005: Hispanic Americans in Science and Technology Science Reference Guides: Rachel Carson: Selected Reading List Selected Internet Resources: African Americans in Science and Technology Selected Internet Resources: Biography Selected Internet Resources: Women in Science, Technology and Medicine Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography Selected Internet Resources American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) Changing the Face of Medicine Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics Directory of Science & Engineering Faculty in Selected Institutions of Higher Education The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences Female Nobel Prize Laureates Hispanic Dental Association (HDA) Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines IEEE Women in Engineering JCE Online: Biographical Snapshots of Famous Women and Minority Chemists JustGarciaHill Latina Women of NASA Minority Issues - American Institute of Physics (AIP) National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA) National Dental Association (NDA) National Medical Association (NMA) National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) National Science Foundation (NSF) National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) SACNAS: Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science She Figures 2006: Women and Science Statistics and Indicators Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) US Black Engineer & Information Technology Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) Women in Physics - American Institute of Physics (AIP) Women in Technology International (WITI) Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in S&E |
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