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.

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She also learned what it s like to be the only woman in the room the title. The first part of the book is more biographical than anything. 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 suggests that a female scientist is going to analyze the difficult problem of jennifer vs.

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. Why science is still a boys club. The title of eileen pollack s new book 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.

Whereas it was rather interesting it was not quite what i was expecting.