The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

by Eileen Pollack

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807046574
• ISBN13: 9780807046579
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"