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"Women have always included technology and science in their choices and successes. But not until today do we hear voices raised that say, as they do in this volume, that science and engineering enterprises must choose women for their own successes."--from the Preface In Women in Science and Engineering: Choices for Success Cecily Cannan Selby and her co-authors identify ways in which women in science can adapt to existing institutional systems, and how these systems can and should improve so that women, and others with diverse backgrounds, will choose to work within them. Ultimately, the seek the benefits to all of a coeducational workforce that is governed, evaluated, and rewarded through coeducational values and attitudes. The authors describe what progress has been made over the past twenty-five years. They explore questions of workplace rewards to determine what factors keep women in science and engineering. Turning to successes women have had in both the private sector and government, they ask which policies and practices have been proven to work and are worth emulating. And they discuss the role of women in the academic scientific community. In a conclusion, they address questions of what current progress means for the future of women in science and engineering.