The Only Woman In The Room Eileen Pollack

Always wonderful when the first review of a new book is positive.

The only woman in the room eileen pollack.

I can t wait to share this book with friends and students and colleagues. A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences mathematics engineering and computer science. About 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 the 1970s pollack had excelled as one of yale s first two women. Why science is still a boys club. The only woman in the room my only complaint. A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences mathematics engineering and computer science.

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 is absolutely brilliant even a sleeping pill and head cold couldn t stop me from reading it through the night. Makes me feel itchy to think that studying physics in college gave me physical ticks as opposed to tics no wonder no one wanted to go out with me. In 2005 when lawrence summers then president of harvard asked why so few women even today achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences eileen pollack set out to find the answer.

Based on six years of interviewing dozens of teachers and students and reviewing studies on gender bias the only woman in the room is an illuminating exploration of the cultural social psychological and institutional barriers confronting women in the stem disciplines. 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. Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by the washington post. Pollack brings to light the struggles that women in the sciences are often hesitant to admit and provides hope that changing attitudes and behaviors can bring more women into fields in which they remain to this day.