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Format: xvi, 409 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.

Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition

ISBN: 978-19821-3183-8

Content: "In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event--one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. The Exceptions is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader: Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher and protégée of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA." -- from dust jacket

Note: 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

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-9821-3185-2

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: 1943- Hopkins, Nancy ; Wissenschaftlerin ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Biographies

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ISBN: 9781398520028

Content: " 'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryThe remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is a triumphant account of progress, whilst reminding us that further action is needed. These women scientists entered the work force in the 1960s during a push for affirmative action. Embarking on their careers they thought that discrimination against women was a thing of the past and that science was a pure meritocracy. Women were marginalized and minimized, especially as they grew older, their contributions stolen and erased. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story in 1999 for The Boston Globe , when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made the astonishing admission that it discriminated against women on its faculty, The Exceptions is an intimate narrative which centres on Nancy Hopkins 8211 a surprisingly reluctant feminist who became a hero to two generations of women in science. In uncovering an erased history, we are finally introduced to the hidden scientists who paved the way for collective change."

Content: Biographisches: "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." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: November 21, 2022 Journalist Zernike ( Boiling Mad: Inside the Tea Party ) paints an inspiring portrait of MIT molecular biologist Nancy Hopkins and 15 other female scientists who pushed the university to acknowledge in 1999 a long-standing pattern of discrimination against women on its science faculty. In 1973, when Hopkins arrived at MIT as an assistant professor, the institution flaunted its sole female full professor, physicist Millie Dresselhaus, “as the emblem for what all women could be at MIT, and in science.” Twenty-one years later, women made up less than 8% of the faculty in the School of Science. Zernike movingly details how Hopkins, after enduring years of slights and mistreatment while conducting important genetic research, began reaching out to her female colleagues, who were eager to share their own stories of discrimination. They persuaded the dean of science to back their case for a Committee on Women Faculty, which compiled a devastating report on how women in the science departments had been marginalized. Striking an expert balance between the big picture and intimate profiles of the women involved, Zernike offers an intriguing and often infuriating glimpse into the rarefied world of higher education. Readers will be fascinated. Agent: Elyse Cheney, Cheney Agency. "

Language: English

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Format: 259 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. St. Martin's Griffin ed.

Note: Previous ed.: New York: Times, 2010. - Includes index

Language: English

Keywords: Tea-Party-Bewegung

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Format: 1 online resource (301 p.)

ISBN: 9780674037427

Content: Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to the religious Right. At present there are about 1,700 charter schools, with total enrollment estimated to reach one million early in the century. Yet, until now, little has been known about the inner workings of these small, inventive schools that rely on public money but are largely independent of local school boards. Inside Charter Schools takes readers into six strikingly different schools, from an evangelical home-schooling charter in California to a back-to-basics charter in a black neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan. With a keen eye for human aspirations and dilemmas, the authors provide incisive analysis of the challenges and problems facing this young movement. Do charter schools really spur innovation, or do they simply exacerbate tribal forms of American pluralism? Inside Charter Schools provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Growing Charter Schools, Decentering the State -- , 1 The Public Square, Big or Small? Charter Schools in Political Context -- , 2 We Hold on to Our Kids,We Hold on Tight: Tandem Charters in Michigan -- , 3 An Empowering Spirit Is Not Enough: A Latino Charter School Struggles over Leadership -- , 4 Selling Air: New England Parents Spark a New Revolution -- , 5 Diversity and Inequality: Montera Charter High School -- , 6 Losing Public Accountability: A Home Schooling Charter -- , 7 Teachers as Communitarians: A Charter School Cooperative in Minnesota -- , 8 Breaking Away or Pulling Together? Making Decentralization Work -- , Notes -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674037427

URL: Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter

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URL: Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674037427