FACTORS AND PERSPECTIVES INFLUENCING NANOTECHNOLOGY CAREER DEVELOPMENT: COMPARISON OF MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMIC NANOSCIENTISTS

Women continue to constitute an underrepresented, albeit, growing proportion of science and engineering faculty in the United States. Nanotechnology, an emerging science and technology field, has characteristics hypothesized to be more attractive to women. This qualitative study investigates gender differences in nanoscientists' career decisions to test this hypothesis. The study is designed as a grounded theory exercise involving...