The Only Woman In The Room Eileen Pollack

The only woman in the room.

The only woman in the room eileen pollack.

She also learned what it s like to be the only woman in the room the title. 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. As a physics major at yale in the 1970s eileen pollack learned about gravitation and quantum mechanics and ballistics. The first part of the book is more biographical than anything.

Why science is still a boys club suggests that a female scientist is going to analyze the difficult problem of jennifer vs. The title of eileen pollack s new book the only woman in the room. Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets. 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 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. Eileen pollack s the only woman in the room. Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading the only woman in the room.

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.