{"id":47881,"date":"2015-09-15T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=47881"},"modified":"2015-09-15T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:50:13","slug":"the-only-woman-in-the-room-why-science-is-still-a-boys-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/15\/the-only-woman-in-the-room-why-science-is-still-a-boys-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Woman In the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy&#8217;s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/33\/items\/20150915Uprising\/2015_09_15_Eileen_Pollack.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/33\/items\/20150915Uprising\/2015_09_15_Uprising.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Eileen Pollack<\/strong>, author of The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy&#8217;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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Human evolution researchers made a stunning announcement recently \u2013 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. <\/p>\n<p>Today, women&#8217;s presence in science is dismal, despite many efforts to recruit and train them in the so-called STEM fields \u2013 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. While there was a big jump from the 1970s to the 1990s in women&#8217;s representation in STEM fields, from the 1990s until now, numbers have stagnated. Statistics are as dismal or worse for people of color. <\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eileenpollack.com\">www.eileenpollack.com<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Eileen Pollack, author of The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy&#8217;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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47899,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47881\/revisions\/47899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}