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The Exceptions Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Kate Zernike

A In 1963, a female student was attending a lecture given by Nobel Prize winner James Watson, then tenured at Harvard. At nineteen, she was struggling to define her future. She had given herself just ten years to fulfill her professional ambitions before starting the family she was expected to have...

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

This book, which was recently published, focuses on MIT and a lawsuit filed against the institution by women in the 1970s. It highlighted how women in STEM felt lucky to have any job at all, even if they were doing low-level work and facing harassment.

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So this amazing book, it just came out called The Exceptions by Kate Czerniaki is all about MIT and a lawsuit that was brought against MIT by a bunch of women in the 1970s, which is relatively recent.

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This book, which was recently published, focuses on MIT and a lawsuit filed against the institution by women in the 1970s. It highlighted how women in STEM felt lucky to have any job at all, even if they were doing low-level work and facing harassment.

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So this amazing book, it just came out called The Exceptions by Kate Czerniaki is all about MIT and a lawsuit that was brought against MIT by a bunch of women in the 1970s, which is relatively recent.

At MIT, what Kate says in the book is that women felt lucky. Women who were doing basically the shit jobs. The women who are doing these shit crap jobs as basically glorified secretaries, but doing the science, they felt lucky to have any job at all in the sciences.

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