Coffee Break Lecture: Pythagoras's Trousers

Margaret Wertheim will give a lecture on science and gender. Wertheim is an internationally noted science writer and commentator, and author of Pythagoras Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars. The book presents a social and cultural history of physics and explores how the development of physics has been intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community, the science itself, and the picture of reality it portrays.