Who's Afraid of Marie Curie?: The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology

In 2005, Harvard president Larry Summers sparked outrage by suggesting that women's low representation in the sciences was due to innate gender differences. Summers resigned and the media frenzy moved on, but how much do we still really know about the state of women's experience-and abilities-in science?

Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? explores the opportunities and challenges facing women in science and technology, math and medicine, from grade school to grad school and beyond. Science writer Li…