The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science

Author

Kate Zernike

Call Number

• 500.82 Z586 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023

Physical Description

xvi, 409 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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." -- Dust jacket.

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
• Epilogue
• The sixteen.