Pathways Potholes and the Persistence of Women in Science

<a name=OLE_LINK1></a><a name=OLE_LINK2>This book illustrates the importance of focusing on the choices constraints and agency of women in science to understand which women under what conditions with what tools successfully manage to navigate science or leave the discipline. The chapters in this volume apply the metaphor of the road to a variety of fields and moments that are characterized as exits pathways and potholes which refocuses our attention on the challenges posed by and the conditions of scientific careers</a>.