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
 
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. 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…