- Author
- Kreinberg, N.
- Title
- I'm Madly in Love With Electricity and Other Comments About Their Work by Women in Science and Engineering.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Report
- Booklet, 1997, 43 p.
- Keywords
- women | engineering | physics | chemistry | questionnaires
- Identifiers
- mathematics; astronomy; life sciences; resource people; publications and organizations
- Abstract
- This booklet was written to introduce you to some of the women working in science and engineering; to give you a brief look at the work they do and how they feel about it; and to awaken or strengthen your interest in such a career for yourself. A number of factors seem to discourage young women from preparing for careers that use math and science. The result is that only a small percentage of women working today are scientists and engineers. The continuing absence of women from these fields is a loss to the professions and a waste of human talent. If young women were encouraged to take all the math and science courses they could, from 7th grade through high school, their options for future work and study would be many times increased. If more information was made available about the variety of work women are doing in science and engineering, more young women might be motivated to pursue careers in those professions. In these pages, you will meet a woman who is learning to produce clean energy by fusing hydrogen atoms to form helium, another who is studying the origin and evolution of galaxies, and several who are investigating the causes of disease. The field of engineering alone offers so many career possibilities that the 18 women represented present only a glimpse of what one might do as an engineer.