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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club - Eileen Pollack
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
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Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by The Washington PostA bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer scienceIn 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even... show more
Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by The Washington PostA bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer scienceIn 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
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780807083444 (0807083445)
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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4.0 The Only Woman in the Room
Eileen Pollack was one of the first women to graduate with a degree in physics from Yale. However, her path was not an easy one because of her gender. Eileen looks back at her education and and academic career to try and figure out the plight of women in science in her semi-autobiographical The On...
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4.0 The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
The last third of this book was more or less what I was hoping the whole book would be. It's an overview and dicussion of the different theories as to why there is still a lack of women in some STEM fields. The author's focus is on the upper echelons of academia -- I'm afraid that the fact that I ...
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