The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys' Club by Eileen Pollack
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

Eileen Pollack

266 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
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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 1960...

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