Communicating as Women in STEM

Presents strategies that help women and underrepresented groups implement verbal and nonverbal skills to improve communication across genders

Charlotte Brammer (Author)

9780128025796, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 19 September 2018

108 pages, 15 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 0.9 cm, 0.23 kg

Communicating as Women in STEM discusses various communication styles, also demonstrating how principles can be applied during interpersonal interactions in day-to-day environments. It provides women and other underrepresented groups, faculty and administrators with the tools they need to break barriers raised by different communication styles within the STEM fields. Sections cover tactics on how to become more aware of communication patterns and how to cope with, and improve, communication. This practical resource for women in the STEM fields is also ideal for mentors, educators, advisers and organizations interested in encouraging women to choose and remain in these fields.

1.Introduction: Understanding STEM cultures and communication expectations2.Gender roles/differences and communication expectations and violationsa.Gender roles/differences b.Verbal influencing strategies3.Making culture and implicit rules visiblea.Voice/paralanguageb.Listening/responding/turn-takingc.Body movement, placement, and imaged.The invisibles: time, smell, and touch4.Communicator styles: male/female/androgynousa.Bem’s sex role inventory and the value of androgynous communication style

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA]