Addressing Gender Bias in Science & Technology

Samina Azad is a technical team leader, currently in the consumer packaged-goods industry. She leads change and motivates cross-functional product development teams daily to develop new products and technologies. She has taken thousands of new products to market, including a peroxide-based sterilizer for surgical medical devices. Azad has been serving ACS members in various leadership capacities since 2008. She earned her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Wisconsin and previously held two postdoctoral research positions at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University. She has published more than thirty scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Chapter 1: Roadmap, Samina Azad
Chapter2: From Permission to Poise, Lisa M. Balbes and Michelle Francl
Chapter 3: Understanding Bias in Science, Donna J. Dean and Cynthia L. Simpson
Chapter 4: Science behind Bias, Blair Schneider and Mary Anne Holmes
Chapter 5: Who Belongs in Science: Numbers Are Not Enough, Adrienne L. Traxler
Chapter 6: Removing Barriers, Dontarie Stallings, Srikant Iyer, and Rigoberto Hernandez
Chapter 7: Changing Academic Cultures to Respond to Hostile Climates, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Meredith Hastings, Blair Schneider, and Erika Marin-Spiotta
Chapter 8: Matters of Ethics, Natalie A. LaFranzo, Nicholas Giordano, and Edgar Arriaga
Chapter 9: Gender Bias and the Law, Joanna L. Grossman

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