Cover Image

The exceptions Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science

"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event--one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. The Exceptions is the story of the...

Full description

Main Author: Zernike, Kate (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2023.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Nancy > (Nancy H.)
Women in science > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women scientists > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography.
Sex discrimination in science > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography.
Sexism in education > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women > Education (Higher) > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women college teachers > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • An epiphany on Divinity Avenue
  • The choice
  • An immodest proposal
  • At the feet of Harvard's great men
  • Bungtown road
  • "Women, please apply"
  • The vow
  • "We should distance all competitors"
  • Our Millie
  • The best home for a feminist
  • Liberated lifestyles
  • Kendall square
  • "This slow and gentle robbery"
  • "Fodder"
  • Fun in middle age
  • Three hundred square feet
  • MIT Inc.
  • Sixteen tenured women
  • X and Y
  • All for one or one for all
  • "The greater part of the balance
  • Epilogue
  • The sixteen.

Similar Items