Note
1. After this essay was submitted, four potentially relevant resources (all published in late 2019) crossed Choice editors’ desks. They are listed here for readers’ reference. Diversifying STEM: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender, edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson (Rutgers); Find Your Path: Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers, by Daniel Goodman (MIT); Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist, by John Van Wyhe (NUS); and The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr. Claire Weekes, by Judith Hoare (Scribe).
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