Women and Scientific Employment combines rich empirical data and theoretical discussion on the 'problem' of women's representation in scientific education and employment. A distinction is made throughout between 'quantitative feminization' and 'vertical feminization' - a distinction which is frequently confused in policy on women and the sciences. Comparisons are made with the USA and France, revealing considerable similarity with the UK. The case is put for the different scientific disciplines to be examined separately, both empirically and theoretically.

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JUDITH GLOVER is Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Roehampton Institute, London. She has directed, with Jane Fielding, an ESRC-funded project 'Gender and Science, Engineering and Technology', 1994-7. She is currently directing a research project funded by the Directorate-General XII of the European Commission, which is mapping the data on women and the sciences in all member states.

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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Does the Issue of Women and the Sciences Matter? British Women in Scientific Education and Employment Women Scientists in France and the USA Is Physics the Issue? Explaining Women's Representation in the Sciences Exclusions: American Women of Science Issues Arising Index