The Only Woman In The Room Eileen Pollack

As a physics major at yale in the 1970s eileen pollack learned about gravitation and quantum mechanics and ballistics.

The only woman in the room eileen pollack.

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. The only woman in the room is absolutely brilliant even a sleeping pill and head cold couldn t stop me from reading it through the night. Why science is still a boys club is interesting enough but for the most part is not quite what i thought it would be. The only woman in the room.

The first part of the book is more biographical than anything. She also learned what it s like to be the only woman in the room the title. Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading the only woman in the room. Pollack s story reveals so much i want to give it to my children my husband my older sister a biologist and every physicist i know perhaps with key passages underlined.

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. Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets. Whereas it was rather interesting it was not quite what i was expecting. Why science is still a boys club.

The title of eileen pollack s new book the only woman in the room.