Communicating as women in STEM

Communicating as Women in STEM discusses various communication styles and then demonstrates how the principles can be applied during interpersonal interactions in your day-to-day environment. This book provides women as well as underrepresented groups, faculty, and administrators with the tools they need to break barriers raised by different communication styles within the STEM fields. Benefits include becoming more aware of the communication patterns surrounding you and learning ways to cope with and improve communication.

Communicating as Women in STEM is a practical resource for women in the STEM fields as well as mentors, educators, advisers, and organizations interested in encouraging women to choose and remain in these fields.

• Enables women, minorities, faculty, and administrators to develop broader communication skills.
• Teaches constructive communication strategies for interaction with mentees, mentors, faculty, managers, colleagues, and other professionals.
• Contains observation exercises with questions as well as scenarios to illustrate communication strategies.