The Only Woman In The Room Eileen Pollack

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.

Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by the washington post. A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences mathematics engineering and computer science. A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences mathematics engineering and computer science. 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 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. 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. The only woman in the room my only complaint. About the only woman in the room.

In the 1970s pollack had excelled as one of yale s first two women. Always wonderful when the first review of a new book is positive. 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 fact pollack has not been the only woman in the room since the 1970s when she earned her undergraduate degree in physics from yale before leaving the field to pursue a career as a writer.

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. I can t wait to share this book with friends and students and colleagues. 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. Eileen pollack and 3 other people liked alyson hagy s review of the only woman in the room.