Why There Are Still So Few Women In Science

Published October 26, 2015 at 12:40 PM CDT

Eileen Pollack, one of the first women to get a degree in physics from Yale, is author of "The Only Woman in the Room." (Michele McDonald)

Here’s a question for every woman who’s ever loved science but didn’t pursue it as a career: Why? Eileen Pollack has wrestled with that question for most of her life, and she tried to find the answer in her new book, “ The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club.” Pollack spoke with Here & Now’s Meghna Chakrabarti, originally on Radio Boston.

Book Excerpt: ‘The Only Woman In The Room’

By Eileen Pollack

Guest

Eileen Pollack, novelist, essayist, short story writer. Her latest book is “The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club.” She also teaches on the faculty of the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. She tweets @EileenPollack.