Exceptions - Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science

"In 1999, Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher at MIT, found herself underpaid and denied the credit and resources given to men of lesser rank. Galvanized by the flagrant favoritism, Hopkins led a group of sixteen women on the faculty in a campaign that prompted MIT to make the historic admission that it had long discriminated against female scientists. The MIT sixteen were formidable in their respective fields: their work has advanced our understanding of everything from cancer to geology, from fossil fuels to the inner workings of the human brain. And their effort to highlight the inequity they observed would set off a national reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science that continues to this day. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story in 1999 for the Boston Globe, The exceptions is the intimate and unforgettable story of Nancy Hopkins--a surprisingly reluctant feminist who became a hero to two generations of women in science."--Back cover.

About the author

Kate Zernike has been a reporter for The New York Times since 2000. She was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for stories about al-Qaeda before and after the 9/11 terror attacks. She was previously a reporter for The Boston Globe, where she broke the story of MIT's admission that it had discriminated against women on its faculty, on which The Exceptions is based. The daughter and granddaughter of scientists, she is a graduate of Trinity College at the University of Toronto and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and sons.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Zernike, Kate Zernike
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2024
• EAN: 9781982131845
• ISBN: 978-1-982131-84-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Science: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Gender studies: women and girls, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs