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why science is still a boys' club

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The only woman in the room

why science is still a boys' club

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"Eileen 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, where, 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. Years later, Pollack revisited her reasons for walking away from the career she once had coveted. She spent six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates and dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science. In addition, Pollack talked to experts in the field of gender studies and reviewed the most up-to-date research that seeks to document why women and minorities underperform in STEM fields. Girls who study science and math are still belittled and teased by their male peers and teachers, even by other girls. They are led to think that any interest or achievement in science or math will diminish their popularity. They are still being steered away from advanced courses in technical fields, while deeply entrenched stereotypes lead them to see themselves as less talented than their male classmates, a condition that causes them to fulfill such expectations and perform more poorly than the boys sitting beside them. "--

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Cover of: Only Woman in the Room
Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
2018, Beacon Press
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The only woman in the room: why science is still a boys' club
2015, Beacon Press
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Table of Contents

Bright college years
Leaving Liberty
A different kind of math
Science fair
Science unfair
Advanced placement
Surviving Yale
Freshman disorientation
Too much male hormone
Electricity and magnetism
The philosophy of existence
X-10, Y-12, K-25
Life on other planets
Return to New Haven
The two-body problem
Statics and dynamics
Integration and differentiation
The women who don't give a crap
Parallel universes
The sky is blue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-266).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.420973
Library of Congress
HQ1397 b .P65 2015, HQ1397 .P65 2015, HQ1397 b.P65 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 266 pages
Number of pages
266

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27194277M
Internet Archive
onlywomaninroomw0000poll
ISBN 10
0807046574
ISBN 13
9780807046579
LCCN
2015004217
OCLC/WorldCat
898909730

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