It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read A Lab of One's Own by Rita Colwell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system. If you think sexism thrives only on Wall Street or Hollywood, you haven’t visited a lab, a science department, a research foundation, or a biotech firm. Rita Colwell is one of the top scientists in America: the groundbreaking microbiologist who discovered how cholera survives between epidemics and the former head of the National...
A Lab of One's Own by Rita Colwell is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read A Lab of One's Own aloud.
A Lab of One's Own is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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