A friend told me to read this book because you see I am a scientist......and a successful one. Is science a male dominated field? Most certainly it is. Is there sexual harassment on the way up and in the workplace? Yes of course there is as in most fields. Do other …more scientists take credit for the work of others? Sometimes. Does this book reliably portray the difficulties of women training in science. Well maybe in 1952. I was only 3 then.

What did I really think? It was boring. I found the character to be unlike any other women scientist I have ever met. She takes "poor me" to a new standard. When in training you are learning to be a scientist. You learn to question your bias and hypotheses and you climb the ladder. There are hurdles to climb and then you get a doctorate and then you train more as a postdoc. As one reviewer said.....she should have been fired in the first chapter....I agree.

What did I like …cooking is a science! That is about it. I honestly do not know why this is a popular book. To learn that it is to be a movie made me shudder. Someone is making a lot of money and I hope will donate some of it to the real scientists who actually have one foot in reality. (less)