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History of Women in Science and Engineering

WGS.S10 · Women's and Gender Studies · Undergraduate · Fall 2017

Maia Weinstock

MIT · Tier 1

This course provides a basic overview of the history of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Students will learn about specific contributions of women across a variety of disciplines and will gain a broad perspective on how these contributions played a larger role in the advancement of human knowledge and technological achievement. The class will also grapple with how both historic and modern biases within the STEM disciplines, as well as in representations of wome…

HistoryEngineeringGender StudiesSociologyHumanitiesSocial Sciences

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Maia Weinstock. WGS.S10 History of Women in Science and Engineering. Fall 2017. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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