Download or read book Women Scientists in the Third World written by Lalita Subrahmanyan and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1998-09-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collective biography of full-time women faculty members in the hard sciences at the University of Madras. The ethnographic approach combines descriptions of the lives and careers of individual women in a male-dominated environment with analysis of the structures and organizational features that maintain them in a peripheral position. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR