Sep 15 2015
The Only Woman In the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy’s Club
GUEST: Eileen Pollack, author of The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy’s Club. She was one of the first two women to have ever earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Yale University. Today she is a writer whose earlier books include Breaking and Entering, and Paradise, New York. She is a Professor of Creative writing at the University of Michigan.
Human evolution researchers made a stunning announcement recently – they had discovered a previously unknown species of humans. The remains of Homo Naledi, as this new species has been named, was excavated by a team of 6 scientists. What was remarkable about this team, given the gender homogeneity of science, was that they were all women.
Today, women’s presence in science is dismal, despite many efforts to recruit and train them in the so-called STEM fields – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. While there was a big jump from the 1970s to the 1990s in women’s representation in STEM fields, from the 1990s until now, numbers have stagnated. Statistics are as dismal or worse for people of color.
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