Kate Zernike has been a reporter for The New York Times since 2000. She was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for stories about al-Qaeda before and after the 9/11 terror attacks. She was previously a reporter for The Boston Globe, where she broke the story of MIT's admission that it had discriminated against women on its faculty, on which The Exceptions is based. The daughter and granddaughter of scientists, she is a graduate of Trinity College at the University of Toronto and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and sons.
"Excellent and infuriating."--The New York Times "Zernike, a
wonderful storyteller, seamlessly weaves together contemporary
events, facts
and statistics, and telling anecdotes... Zernike's profile of Nancy
Hopkins provides brilliant inspiration."--Booklist (starred review)
"A fascinating, heartening account of successful advocacy in the
scientific and academic communities."--Kirkus (starred review)
"What Nancy Hopkins achieved is exceptional--in science of course,
but more broadly in society. What Kate Zernike has achieved in this
brilliant book is also exceptional--a condemnation of the treatment
of women in science and a riveting story about the drive to pursue
science."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Pulitzer
Prize-winner The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times
bestseller The Gene "A blistering, brave, heartbreaking, and
heartening account of brilliant women and the world-changing power
of sisterhood and science."
--Janice P. Nimura, author of The Doctors Blackwell "The Exceptions
is a perfect marriage of compelling material and formidable
journalist."--Frank Bruni, author of The Beauty of Dusk "A gripping
case study of the horrors and triumphs of the gender revolution in
science."--Mahzarin R. Banaji, co-author of Blindspot: Hidden
Biases of Good People "A story I wouldn't believe except that it's
true, told by the reporter who broke it first." -- Angela
Duckworth, author of Grit "A stunning account of discrimination
against women scientists."--Kenneth R. Manning, author of Black
Apollo of Science "Two decades ago, MIT recognized the gender
inequality in its faculty and publicly began an effort to address
the situation. This well researched and well written book tells
that story and places it in an historical and national
context."--Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams "Equally
gifted as both reporter and storyteller, Kate Zernike has given us
a book that is always engaging, at times shocking, and in the end
thrilling. The Exceptions is exceptional."--Daniel Okrent, author
of The Guarded Gate and Last Call "A page-turner. Poignant.
Infuriating. Inspirational. I read it and was reminded that this
work needs to be taken up by each new generation of women in the
workplace."--Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the
Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT; author of Reclaiming
Conversation and The Empathy Diaries
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