A review by prairiegirl75
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club by Eileen Pollack

informative inspiring reflective

5.0

Another possible subtitle: A Memoir From Inside the Leaky Pipeline. Pollack mostly focuses on her story, starting when she was a girl who grew up with obvious gifts in math and science, continuing through her undergraduate degree in theoretical physics, and then the decision to take a different path as a writer. The stats on women in science show her experience is not unusual. I identified with a lot of her story and honestly couldn't put it down. I would recommend this book to any person in science, any woman not in science who once thought she might want to be, and any parent or teacher who has any role in influencing the next generation's perception of science.