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 eileen pollack.
The only woman in the room.
Why science is still a boys club.
As a physics major at yale in the 1970s eileen pollack learned about gravitation and quantum mechanics and ballistics.
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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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The title of eileen pollack s new book the only woman in the room.
The first part of the book is more biographical than anything.
Why science is still a boys club kindle edition by pollack eileen.
Whereas it was rather interesting it was not quite what i was expecting.
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.
She also learned what it s like to be the only woman in the room the title.