{"id":590,"date":"2008-05-15T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2008\/05\/15\/women-in-science-book-discussion-group\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T15:00:35","slug":"women-in-science-book-discussion-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2008\/05\/15\/women-in-science-book-discussion-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Science Book Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women in Science Book Discussion Group this summer at WRAC<\/p>\n<p>This group will focus on women in science, their successes and failures, and the types of experiences they have faced in a male-dominated field. Participants will read and discuss 3 biographies of noted female scientists and 1 book focused on the issues women face in the sciences:<\/p>\n<p>1) Madame Curie: A Biography (Eve Curie)<br \/>\n2) Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Brenda Maddox)<br \/>\n3) The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock&#8217;s Search for Patterns of Genetic Control (Nathaniel Comfort)<br \/>\n4) Who&#8217;s Afraid of Marie Curie? The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology (Linley Erin Hall)<\/p>\n<p>The group will meet on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~wrac\/\">Women\u2019s Resource and Action Center <\/a>on the following dates: <\/p>\n<p>    June 11<br \/>\n    June 25<br \/>\n    July 9<br \/>\n    July 23<\/p>\n<p>Pre-registration is requested; participants may join at any time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~wrac\/groups\/womenscience.htm\">Register at www.uiowa.edu\/~wrac\/groups\/womenscience.htm <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu\/bandaids\/campus_maps\/building_details.cfm?abbr=wrac\">Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in Science Book Discussion Group this summer at WRAC This group will focus on women in science, their successes and failures, and the types of experiences they have faced in a male-dominated field. Participants will read and discuss 3 biographies of noted female scientists and 1 book focused on the issues women face in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2008\/05\/15\/women-in-science-book-discussion-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Women in Science Book Discussion Group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}