The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer women enter
computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This book provides an unprecedented look at …

Purpose–Knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) and particularly academic
entrepreneurship (Klofsten and Jones-Evans, 2000) are indispensable for economic growth …

Prepublication peer review should be abolished. We consider the effects that such a change
will have on the social structure of science, paying particular attention to the changed …

Effective policies promoting diversity in geoscience require understanding of how the values
and practices of the community support the inclusion of different social groups. As sites of …

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current
experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary orientation of lab work and …

This paper explores the relationship between epistemology, sociology, and learning and
teaching in physics based on an examination of literature from research in science studies …

Using a decision theoretic model of scientists' time allocation between potential research
projects I explain the fact that on average women scientists publish less research papers …

Gender disparities in science remain, despite decades of policies aimed at achieving
gender parity. Yet, little is known about the macro-level factors affecting such disparities …

Despite decades of research on and efforts to increase the low numbers of women in
engineering in many parts of the world, underrepresentation persists. This paper analyzes …

The confluence between the gender and information technology (IT) revolutions has the
potential to create a new development paradigm. The transition from an industrial to a …