{"product_id":"the-only-woman-in-the-room-why-science-is-still-a-boys-club-paperback","title":"The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEileen Pollack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e'S NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautifully written and full of important insights, \u003cb\u003e\" this is a \u003cb\u003ebracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and '70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university's first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer's institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates, as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, \u003ci\u003eThe Only Woman in the Room\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women--and minorities--in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women's experiences in a way that simple data can't, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only Woman in the Room\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit, and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEileen Pollack\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eBreaking and Entering\u003c\/i\u003e (a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice selection) and \u003ci\u003eParadise, New York\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two collections of short fiction, an award-winning book of nonfiction, and two creative-nonfiction textbooks. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor on the faculty of the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. She divides her time between Manhattan and Ann Arbor, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757685932320,"sku":"9780807083444","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3e54ad57eadbb8b055daa4a6d6872ac1.webp?v=1780108963","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-only-woman-in-the-room-why-science-is-still-a-boys-club-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}