The New York Times Book Review

Double Helix, Single Guy

Reposted from The New York Times Book Review

A review of GENES, GIRLS, AND GAMOW by James D. Watson

By Barbara Ehrenreich

[…] Surely somewhere along the way someone must have pointed out to him, rather sharply, one would expect, that he was helping create a hostile environment for young women struggling to be taken seriously as scientists -- like the biochemistry-student heroine of Barbara Riddle's fine autobiographical novel, “The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke.”