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

Summary:

"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781982131838 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xvi, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

PART ONE. 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 -- PART TWO. "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. -- PART THREE. Sixteen tenured women -- X and Y -- All for one or one for all -- "The greater part of the balance" -- Epilogue -- The sixteen.