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The Only Woman in the Room
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club | Eileen Pollack
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 2005, when Lawrence (…more)
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GivenLemons
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Mehso-so

I sympathised deeply with Pollack‘s experiences studying her science degree, especially because I have similar experiences. However this is more of a memoir about why she studied and then left science than a look into the research on the gender disparity in STEM.

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silentrequiem
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I'm #DreamingOfAWarmerClimate, where I can lay in a hammock reading. #ReadJanuary

Picture from my vacation to Hilton Head two years ago when I did just that a lot, reading The Only Woman in the Room.

RealLifeReading Lovely! 8y
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Pronounced_ing
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Ooh! This is now out in paperback! This hit home for me, as the daughter of a chemist and the sister of a mechanical engineer. Great reading for anyone (male or female) in science--or trying to encourage a kid in STEM.

skrishna I just picked this up! I'm excited to read it. 8y
Bookchipmunk This is on my TBR and I'm going to move it up! (I'm a molecular cell biologist) 8y
Kitta Adding this to my TBR, I'm a molecular biologist too @Bookchipmunk ! 8y
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Baileythebookworm
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Doing a little lunchtime reading. I've heard good things about this book - has anybody else read it?

shawnmooney I posted a day or two ago about a book with the exact same (main) title but a different subtitle. The author of my book is Sirota. Coincidence! 9y
Baileythebookworm @shawnmooney I saw that! That's too funny 9y
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