- Mary Frank Fox
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Mary Frank Fox Occupation Sociologist Known for Advancements in sociology of science Mary Frank Fox is a sociologist of science and an ADVANCE professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she also co-directs the Center for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology. Her research focuses on gender, science, and academia.
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Education and Professional History
Mary Frank Fox received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Michigan.
Her professional appointments and offices have included: a member of the Social Science Advisory, the National Center for Women and Information Technology; consultant for the Study of Gender Differences in Science and Engineering, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences; member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Human Resources Expert Committee; advisory Review Panel for NSF Workshop on Using Human Resource Data; past president of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS); founding associate editor of Gender & Society, and member of the editorial advisory board of the Social Studies of Science and Sex Roles: Journal of Research.
Research
Mary Frank Fox's research has introduced and established ways in which the participation and performance of women and men reflect and are affected by social and organizational features of science and academia. She has addressed these complex processes in a range of research encompassing education and educational programs, collaborative practices, salary rewards, publication productivity, social attributions and expectations, and academic careers. Her well-known publications include Scientific Careers: Universalism and Particularism (with J.S. Long, 1995), Research, Teaching, And Publication Productivity - Mutuality Versus Competition In Academia (1992), and Women, science, and academia - Graduate education and careers (2001).
Contributions to sociology of science
Following Merton's tradition, Mary Frank Fox devoted many years of her work to the sociology of science being one of the founders of the subfield of gender, science, and academia. Using Merton's (1961/1973) concept of "strategic research sites," she has argued that science and academia are "strategic research sites" for studies of gender and inequality. Both gender relations and science are hierarchichally structured. Gender hierarchy is constituted by processes where men and women are "differentially ranked and evaluated" (Fox, 2004) and science "reflects and reinforces gender stratification" (Fox, 1999, 2001, 2007). In her studies of scientific indicators, she demonstrated stratification of academia by field, gender, rank, and publication productivity. In her studies of scientific education, careers, and workplaces, she identified social and organizational characteristics of work that relate to participation, publication productivity, and performance in science and academia.
Publications
Books
Mary Frank Fox, Deborah Johnson, and Sue Rosser (eds.). Women, Gender, and Technology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Mary Frank Fox (ed.) Scholarly Writing and Publsishing: Issues, Problems, and Solutions. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1985.
Mary Frank Fox and Sharlene Hesse Biber. Women at Work. Palo Also, California: Mayfield Publishing, 1984.
Recent, Selected Articles and Chapters
Mary Frank Fox, Gerhard Sonnert, and Irina Nikiforova. "Successful Programs for Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering: Adapting vs. Adopting the Institutional Environment." Research in Higher Education 50 (June 2009): 303-353.
Mary Frank Fox. "Institutional Transformation and the Advancement of Women Faculty: The Case of Academic Science and Engineering." In Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol. 23. Edited by J. C. Smart. Springer Publishers, 2008.
Gerhard Sonnert, Mary Frank Fox, and Kristen Adkins. "Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering: Effects of Faculty, Fields and Institutions Over Time." Social Science Quarterly 88 (December 2007): 1333-1356.
Mary Frank Fox and Sushanta Mohapatra. "Social-Organizational Characteristics of Work and Publication Productivity Among Academic Scientists in Doctoral Granting Departments." The Journal of Higher Education 78 (Sept/Oct 2007): 542-571.
Mary Frank Fox. “Women, Men, and Engineering.” In Women, Gender, and Technology. Edited by M. F. Fox, D. Johnson, and S. Rosser. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Mary Frank Fox and Carol Colatrella. “Participation, Performance, and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering: What is at Issue and Why.” Journal of Technology Transfer (issue on Women in Science) 31 (2006): 377-386.
Mary Frank Fox. "Women and Academic Science: Gender, Status, and Careers." Dissolving Disparity, Catalyzing Change: Are Women Achieving Equity in Chemistry? Edited by C. Marzabadi, V. Kuck, S. Nolan, and J. Buckner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Mary Frank Fox. "Gender, Family Characteristics, and Publication Productivity Among Scientists." Social Studies of Science 35 (February 2005): 131-150.
Mary Frank Fox. "R. K. Merton: Life Time of Influence." Scientometrics 40 (May 2004).
Mary Frank Fox. “Gender, Faculty, and Doctoral Education in Science and Engineering.” In Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes: Women in American Research Universities. Edited by L. Hornig. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003.
Mary Frank Fox. "Women, Science, and Academia: Graduate Education and Careers." Gender & Society 15(October 2001):654-666.
Mary Frank Fox and Paula E. Stephan. "Careers of Young Scientists: Preferences, Prospects, and Realities by Gender and Field." Social Studies of Science 31(February 2001):109-122.
Mary Frank Fox. "Gender, Hierarchy, and Science." In Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Edited by J. S. Chafetz. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
References and external links
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