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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zernike, Kate (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2023.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Nancy > (Nancy H.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Women in science > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women scientists > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography.
Sex discrimination in science > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography.
Sexism in education > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women > Education (Higher) > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women college teachers > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Sex discrimination in science.
Sexism in education.
Women college teachers.
Women > Education (Higher)
Women in science.
Women scientists.
Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.