Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I The Need for GIST -- Chapter 1 The Need for GIST -- Chapter 2 Edging Girls Out -- Chapter 3 The First Year -- Part II The VISTA Intervention -- Chapter 4 VISTA -- Chapter 5 Response to VISTA -- Chapter 6 Girl Friendly Science -- Part III The GIST Children -- Chapter 7 The GIST Children: Attributes and Attitudes -- Part IV Other Interventions -- Chapter 8 The Roadshows -- Chapter 9 Craft, Design and Technology: A Hard Nut to Crack -- Chapter 10 Girls Only? -- Part V The GIST Teachers -- Chapter 11 The Teachers' Perceptions of GIST -- Chapter 12 The Teachers' Response to the GIST Project -- Part VI Conclusions -- Chapter 13 The Effects of GIST -- Chapter 14 Implications -- Appendix 1 GIST Questionnaire: VISTA Visits -- Appendix 2 Intervention Strategies -- Appendix 3 Action Research -- Endpiece -- Bibliography -- List of Works Relating to the GIST Project -- Index