EPISODE · Apr 6, 2021 · 30 MIN
Women in Science: Then and Now by Vivian Gornick
from New Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women · host Abel Ernser
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Women in Science: Then and Now Author: Vivian Gornick Narrator: Madelyn Buzzard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Gornick's portraits demonstrate the driving force behind science.'—The Philadelphia Inquirer 'Women in science stir the contemporary imagination. In their hyphenated identity is captured the pain and excitement of a culture struggling to mature.'—The Washington Post In this revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women's expectations that they can and will succeed. Everything from the disparaging comments by Harvard's then-president to government reports and media coverage has focused on the ways in which women supposedly can't do science. Gornick's original interviews show how deep and severe discrimination against women was back then in all scientific fields. Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Women in Science: Then and Now Author: Vivian Gornick Narrator: Madelyn Buzzard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Gornick's portraits demonstrate the driving force behind science.'—The Philadelphia Inquirer 'Women in science stir the contemporary imagination. In their hyphenated identity is captured the pain and excitement of a culture struggling to mature.'—The Washington Post In this revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women's expectations that they can and will succeed. Everything from the disparaging comments by Harvard's then-president to government reports and media coverage has focused on the ways in which women supposedly can't do science. Gornick's original interviews show how deep and severe discrimination against women was back then in all scientific fields. Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced.
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