From Amazon’s blurb: Writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women’s expectations that they can and will succeed.
Everything from the disparaging comments by Harvard’s then-president to government reports and media coverage has focused on the ways in which women supposedly can’t do science. Gornick’s original interviews show how deep and severe discrimination against women was back then in all scientific fields. Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced.
WHY PICK THIS?
She describes the experiences of female academics of my generation. It is hair-raising. Sad. Tragic. I personally know many women whose lives were ruined by blatant discrimination and very public harassment for simple things, like advocating equal rights for women. They had to be TOUGH TOUGH TOUGH. They are lost heroines – the wasted lives of people who were born female at a bad time.
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Science-Then-Vivian-Gornick/dp/1558615873/
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