#35: Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

[kareila]

This is a deeply researched and thoroughly compelling account of the life and career of Nancy Hopkins, and also to a lesser extent some of her colleagues, who participated in documenting the existence of gender discrimination at MIT. None of them realized at the time what a wide-reaching effect their work would have, and I'm so glad that the reporter who originally broke the news in the Boston Globe was eventually able to follow up and write a book that told the whole story.