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

Zernike, Kate, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1982131837
  • ISBN: 9781982131838
  • Physical Description: xvi, 409 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 371-392) and index.
Subject: Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Women in science > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women scientists > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography.
Sexism in education > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women > Education (Higher) > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women college teachers > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Sex discrimination in higher education > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Sex discrimination in employment > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Sex discrimination against women > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Sex discrimination in science > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Sexism in higher education > United States.
Sexism in science > United States.

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