Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 371-392) and index

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collective biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The exceptions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1330895170

Responsibility statement

Kate Zernike

Sub title

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

Summary

"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 women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader: Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher and protégée of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA." -- from dust jacket

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

Target audience

adult

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