Women and the Challenge of Stem Professions: Thriving in a Chilly Climate

This eye-opening book identifies factors that impede the success of women in STEM professions and demonstrates the negative impact of sexual harassment on women's physical health, mental health, and job performance. Focusing specifically on the narratives of women in higher education, the authors illuminate the structural and systemic barriers facing women working as graduate students, faculty, and administrators. Drawing on insights from the #metoo and #timesup movements as well as the Brett Kavanaugh Senate hearings, this book:

• Provides real-life narratives of women from diverse cultural backgrounds and gender identities struggling in unhealthy workplace environments
• Validates women working in STEM fields who feel isolated in workplaces of hostility, marginalization, and invalidation
• Celebrates the achievements of women who negotiate and achieve success amid workplace hostilities
• Recommends specific practices women can engage and employers can apply to ensure women's safety and career prosperity

Women in STEM: Leaving, Persisting, and Thriving will be an insightful reference for professional women in the social sciences and STEM fields, professional psychological associations, administrators working in higher education, and employers of women in STEM in particular.