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Author:

Zernike, Kate, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

Center Point Large Print edition.

Publisher:

Center Point Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

600 pages (large print) : photographs ; 23 cm

Notes:

Regular print version previously published by Scribner. Includes note on sources (page 598).

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".

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. The Exceptions centers on the life of Nancy Hopkins, a reluctant feminist who became the leader of the sixteen and a hero to two generations of women in science. Hired to prestigious universities at the dawn of affirmative action efforts in the 1970s, Dr. Hopkins and her peers embarked on their careers believing that discrimination against women was a thing of the past -- that science was, at last, a pure meritocracy. For years they explained away the discrimination they experienced as the exception, not the rule. Only when these few women came together after decades of underpayment and the denial of credit, advancement, and equal resources to do their work did they recognize the relentless pattern: women were often marginalized and minimized, especially as they grew older. Meanwhile, men of similar or lesser ability had their career paths paved and widened."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1638087156
9781638087151

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1373387110

LCCN:

2023930227

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)