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

2.0

I found this book incredibly boring. The title makes you think it'll be an examination of women's experiences and reactions to being in the sciences, but the entire first half (and then some) is devoted to the author's story of her experience. It's like reading memoirs of someone you don't know and never really wanted to know. The second half gets a little more interesting as she broadens the perspective by meeting with others and sharing the research, but it still gets boring. It's a depressing story, and it needs to be told - but she tells it over and over and over again. Glad this book is out there to raise awareness of these unconscious biases, but I was also pretty bored.