Women's Work:

"A provocative study to be appreciated by scholars in economic sociology, work and organizations, technology studies, and gender."—Carrie Yang Costello, American Journal of Sociology

"An engaging history of the establishment of the biotech field that is consequential to the matter of gender equality. The appendix alone is a valuable picture of the rigors of doing social science. This book may be about the collaborative inter- and intra-organizational networks of biotech workers but it will bring a knowing smile to sociologists familiar with the isolating challenges of empirical discovery in the social sciences.—Denise D. Bielby, Contemporary Sociology

"Smith-Doerr's book contributes to understandings of gender, careers, and forms of organization in life sciences and presents much-needed research on women scientists in industrial settings."—Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Introduction.
• Explaining Sexual Apartheid in Science.
• A Brief Life Story of the Life Sciences.
• Life in the Commercial Laboratory: Institutionalizing the Network Form.
• Coming in on Queue? Men's and Women's Entry into Biotech.
• Networks versus Hierarchies in Promoting Women Scientists.
• Flexibility, Flexibility, Flexibility: Narratives Explaining Gender Equality in Biotech.
• Conclusion: The Knowledge Economy, Innovation, and Equality.
• Appendix: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Study Scientists.