The Only Woman in the Room : Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club (Hardcover)

from sincostani

I don't really know how to properly review this book. As a woman in computer science who has often been "the only woman in the room", I was interested in reading a well-researched and objective book about why our numbers are so few. Unfortunately, this is not at all the book I was looking for. It...

from CynthiaRD

This book piqued my interest because I am work with many chemists and microbiologists in the life science industry and because my older sister has a Ph.D. and is working at a university. I was hoping that this book could give me some insight into the many female PhDs I know who are successfully w...

from hadden

I was disappointed in this book. It is mostly a "woe is me" recounting of all the author's problems in school and college in both academics and relationships. While she graduated from Yale with a science degree, she basically did not pursue a career in science, not because she was held back, but ...

from Alliebadger

I found this book incredibly boring. The title makes you think it'll be an examination of women's experiences and reactions to being in the sciences, but the entire first half (and then some) is devoted to the author's story of her experience. It's like reading memoirs of someone you don't know a...

from sincostani

I don't really know how to properly review this book. As a woman in computer science who has often been "the only woman in the room", I was interested in reading a well-researched and objective book about why our numbers are so few. Unfortunately, this is not at all the book I was looking for. It...