Rare Invaders#The Pre-World War II History of Women in American Engineering, digital original edition
Author | : Amy Sue Bix |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2015-08-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780262330367 |
ISBN-13 | : 0262330369 |
Rating | : 4/5 (369 Downloads) |
Download or read book Rare Invaders#The Pre-World War II History of Women in American Engineering, digital original edition written by Amy Sue Bix and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. In this BIT, Amy Bix describes how a few women breached the gender-reinforced boundaries of engineering education before World War II. They were a rare group of women who simply worked their way into engineering, through observation, persistence, and the happenstance of being in the right place at the right time.