The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science

This book tells the story of Nancy Hopkins, an accomplished molecular geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her struggle to gain recognition as from her colleagues in academia.  She joined with other women faculty members and researchers and achieved a victory where MIT was forced to admit its history of discrimination against women scientists, and to promise to correct this inequity.  Author Kate Zernike is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who broke this story in the Boston Globe in 1999.