I read this book about a year and a half ago so my memory may not
be that good on it. However, I do recall the stages Jane has listed.
What bothered me about the research was the end of the book it which it
seemed to me the authors exhibited a distinct political bias which made me
question all the conclusions they had reached in the previous chapters.
In particular I remember a story they cited in which they indicated was
typical of the insensitivity of physical science professors to women. In
that story a student was very distressed in the first day of class because
the instructors brought in a jar of marbles and asked to class to estimate
the number in the jar. The authors seemed to claim that this was a prime
example of insensitivity to the way women learn. I showed the passage to
one of our astronomers, and a mathematician who are women and they stated
that they too had read the book and felt it was a biased study that did
not recognize the necessities that are entailed in learning physical and
mathematical sciences.
I thought the authors made a good case until the end of the book
but hurt their credibility by their political attacks.