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

288 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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

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