The Only Woman In The Room Eileen Pollack

Always wonderful when the first review of a new book is positive.

The only woman in the room eileen pollack.

I can t wait to share this book with friends and students and colleagues. Makes me feel itchy to think that studying physics in college gave me physical ticks as opposed to tics no wonder no one wanted to go out with me. The only woman in the room my only complaint. Eileen pollack and 3 other people liked alyson hagy s review of the only woman in the room.

About the only woman in the room. The only woman in the room is absolutely brilliant even a sleeping pill and head cold couldn t stop me from reading it through the night. Pollack s story reveals so much i want to give it to my children my husband my older sister a biologist and every physicist i know perhaps with key passages underlined. Why science is still a boys club.

Pollack brings to light the struggles that women in the sciences are often hesitant to admit and provides hope that changing attitudes and behaviors can bring more women into fields in which they remain to this day. A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences mathematics engineering and computer science. Pollack s story reveals so much i want to give it to my children my husband my older sister a biologist and every physicist i know perhaps with key passages underlined. The only woman in the room is absolutely brilliant even a sleeping pill and head cold couldn t stop me from reading it through the night.

In fact pollack has not been the only woman in the room since the 1970s when she earned her undergraduate degree in physics from yale before leaving the field to pursue a career as a writer. Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by the washington post. A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences mathematics engineering and computer science. In the 1970s pollack had excelled as one of yale s first two women.