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Feb 25, 2023 · Kate Zernike’s “The Exceptions” tells the infuriating, inspiring story of the sexism faced by female scientists at M.I.T. — and how they fought back. Nancy Hopkins, the unlikely rebel at ...
Feb 28, 2023 · From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, The Exceptions chronicles groundbreaking science and a history-making fight for equal opportunity. It is the “excellent and infuriating” ( The New York Times ) story of how this group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to ...
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Feb 28, 2023 · The Exceptions is a powerful yet all-too-familiar story that will resonate with all professional women who experience what those at MIT called “21st-century discrimination”—a subtle and stubborn bias, often unconscious but still damaging. As in bestsellers from Hidden Figures to Lab Girl and Code Girls , we are offered a rare glimpse into ...
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Aug 21, 2023 · Kate Zernike is a national reporter for the New York Times. Harry Zernike/Simon and Schuster. In their pursuit of science and discovery, the few female scientists at MIT in the late 20th century ...
Feb 28, 2023 · 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 ...
Feb 28, 2023 · On the Shelf. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science. By Kate Zernike Scribner: 432 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission ...
The Exceptions is exceptional.”—Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate and Last Call "When, despite talent and tenure, Professor Nancy Hopkins found herself thwarted in her ability to do science at her own institution, she got together with a group of other tenured women scientists and collected data that demonstrated discrimination.
