The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club And yet, isolat. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics.Na
| TITLE | : | The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club |
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| RATING | : | 4.90 (339 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0807083445 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 288 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2016-09-06 |
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Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by The Washington Post
A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolat
EDITORIAL :
“Hard-hitting, difficult to read, and impossible to put down.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Honest, readable, and brave.”
—Library Journal
“Offering an engrossing look at the barriers still facing women in sciencePollack draws attention to this important and vexing problem with a personal narrative, beautifully written and full of important insights on the changes needed to make those barriers crumbleAny young woman or man on the way to college to major in science will find great lessons in this book.”
—Washington Post
“Her memoir rings authentic, its lessons essential. A bitter pill to swallow but a vital addition to the important and frustratingly ongoing discussion about gender equity.”
—Poornima Apte, Booklist
“The Only Woman in th
REVIEW :
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