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Author Zernike, Kate, author.

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

Publication Info. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023.
©2023

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  LP 331.4 ZERNIKE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  LARGE PRINT 331.4133 ZERNIKE    DUE 04-13-24
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP 331.4 ZERNIKE    In Transit
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction Large Type  LT 331.4133 ZERNIKE    In Transit +1 HOLD
Edition Center Point Large Print edition.
Description 600 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Physical Medium large print. rdafs
Note Regular print version previously published by Scribner.
Includes note on sources (page 598).
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.
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".
Subject Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- History -- 20th century.
Sex discrimination in higher education -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Sexism in science -- United States.
Sexism in higher education -- United States.
Women college teachers -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
Women scientists -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
Sex discrimination in science -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Sex discrimination against women -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Sex discrimination in employment -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Large type books.
Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.) (OCoLC)fst00185311
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (OCoLC)fst00529464
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Sex discrimination against women. (OCoLC)fst01114376
Sex discrimination in employment. (OCoLC)fst01114408
Sex discrimination in higher education. (OCoLC)fst01114426
Sex discrimination in science. (OCoLC)fst01114440
Sexism in higher education. (OCoLC)fst01114716
Sexism in science. (OCoLC)fst01114731
Women college teachers. (OCoLC)fst01177488
Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
Massachusetts -- Cambridge. (OCoLC)fst01205363
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Large print books. (OCoLC)fst02061051
Biographies.
Large print books.
Latgr type books.
ISBN 9781638087151 (large print) (hardback : alk. paper) : $39.95
1638087156 (large print) (hardback : alk. paper)
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