The measuring tape heard round the world

In an event hosted by the MIT School of Science, biologist Nancy Hopkins and journalist Kate Zernike discuss "The Exceptions," the story of 16 “exceptional” female scientists on the MIT faculty, who, with Hopkins as their unlikely leader, became heroes in the fight for gender equality.

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