Eileen Pollack
UW Discovery Building 330 N. Orchard St., Madison, Wisconsin 53715
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Eileen Pollack
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery - DeLuca Forum
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale.