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The double bind in physics education : intersectionality, equity, and belonging for women of color

Title: The double bind in physics education : intersectionality, equity, and belonging for women of color / Maria Ong.
Author: Ong, Maria
Publication: Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, [2023]

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xii, 255 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"An incisive study of the mechanisms reinforcing the underrepresentation of women of color in STEM fields and a call for systemic change to address the imbalance. In a detailed exploration of inclusion in physics, social scientist Maria Ong makes the case for far-reaching higher education reform, noting that despite diversity efforts to recruit more women and students of color into science and mathematics programs, many leave the STEM pipeline. The Double Bind in Physics Education takes readers inside the issue by following 10 women of color from their entrance into the undergraduate physics program at a large research university through their pursuit of various educational and career paths. Candid interviews with these women, their instructors and mentors, and their peers, conducted over 25 years, allow Ong to trace how pervasive challenges, such as navigating the intersectionality of race and gender discrimination, have shaped their academic opportunities and career choices. Despite the ideals of objectivity promoted in STEM disciplines, the women profiled here encounter continued patterns of systemic oppression within their departments. In their stories, Ong identifies overt behaviors and microaggressions that harass, exclude, and otherwise disadvantage women of color and members of other minoritized groups. Ong also shows how aids such as student support programs, peer groups, allies, and mentors, which are centered on the individual, can go only so far toward a sustainable solution. In order to provide equitable opportunities, she argues, greater work must be done to dismantle institutional norms and replace them with a culture of inclusion. "--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Who Belongs in Physics? -- Physics: A "Culture of No Culture"? -- "Can You See Yourself There?": Invisibility and Recognition -- "A Woman Like You": Identity-Based Harassment in Physics -- "People Don't Believe I'm in Science": Low Expectations and Stereotype Threat -- "Doing My Own Life": Career-Life Balance -- "Learn Who Has the Power": Individual Strategies for Persistence -- "A Mutual Helping Environment": Counterspaces for Persistence -- "Intermediaries and Influencers": Institutional Supports on the Outer Edges -- A Culture of Belonging

Call Number

Sc E 24-256

ISBN

9781682537831
1682537838

LCCN

2023018772

OCLC

1370486312

Author

Ong, Maria, author.

Title

The double bind in physics education : intersectionality, equity, and belonging for women of color / Maria Ong.

Publisher

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 24-256

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