Not Just for the Boys
Why We Need More Women in Science

Good book. Not exceptional though hence 3 stars if we use a more log scaling rating. If you need concrete examples of how pervasive gender issues are in academia/the workplace this is helpful. If you only have time to read one book though I would recommend the Gendered Brain as it covers similar poi......more

I was reading the book, while I was getting two negative answers to my PhD. applications. I cried more than I had expected, while I was reading. But the book gives me hope and motivation that women can be as good in STEM as they decided to be. At the end of the book I was struggling to read because......more

Physicist and Cambridge college Master Athene Donald takes on the complex and important issue of the gender balance in the sciences. We get plenty on the problem and the vast difference there is between the stats in the biological sciences, where there are more female than males entering the profess......more

Not sure if this is a full 5 stars but it sure felt like it. The problem of why there aren’t more women in science is a complicated one. I have read and reviewed previous neuroscience books which prove that “biologically” there should be no difference between men and women brain from a “learning STE......more

Professor Athene Donald poses some tricky questions: Why are women still so poorly represented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)? What are the obstacles? How do we change things? Why does it matter? Professor Donald presents compelling evidence that there is a wide overlap between......more