Hopkins: Pioneering change at MIT

Three decades ago, Prof Nancy Hopkins spearheaded a pioneering gender study at MIT

Not Alone: Conversation with Leaders brings you the spoken words of leaders who have changed the world of research, academia and business. In 1994, Dr Nancy Hopkins abre em uma nova guia/janela, Professor of Biology at MIT, had enough. She finally concluded that she was suffering gender discrimination. In an extraordinary example of leadership by consensus, 17 women professors at MIT’s School of Science produced a report abre em uma nova guia/janela that changed the dynamics of gender in the professoriate at MIT and the United States. Prof Hopkins is a “reluctant leader”— but what a leader she is! Enjoy it.