The Only Woman In The Room Eileen Pollack

The title of eileen pollack s new book the only woman in the room.

The only woman in the room eileen pollack.

Why science is still a boys club. She also learned what it s like to be the only woman in the room the title. As a physics major at yale in the 1970s eileen pollack learned about gravitation and quantum mechanics and ballistics. The only woman in the room a bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences mathematics engineering and computer science.

Why science is still a boys club kindle edition by pollack eileen. Eileen pollack s the only woman in the room. The only woman in the room. In 2005 when lawrence summers then president of harvard asked why so few women achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences eileen pollack set out to find the answer.

The only woman in the room is absolutely brilliant even a sleeping pill and head cold couldn t stop me from reading it through the night. Whereas it was rather interesting it was not quite what i was expecting. Pollack s story reveals so much i want to give it to my children my husband my older sister a biologist and every physicist i know perhaps with key passages underlined. Why science is still a boys club suggests that a female scientist is going to analyze the difficult problem of jennifer vs.

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