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

by Eileen Pollack

Book Overview

ONE OF WASHINGTON POST'S NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in STEM fields--"beautifully written and full of important insights" (Washington Post).

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807083445
• ISBN13: 9780807083444
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"