December 2016 Non-Fiction Beacon Press

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 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.