The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

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 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. In the 1970s, Pollack had excelled as one of Yale...