num_pages: 320
description: A spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion―and the implications for both sexes. Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity; she argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise.Pythagoras' Trousers is a highly original history of one of science's most powerful disciplines. It is also a passionate argument for the need to involve both women and men in the process of shaping the technologies from the next generation of physicists.
language: English
title: Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War
titlecomplete: Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War
genres: History, Feminism, Womens, Science, Philosophy, Religion, History Of Science, Physics, Gender, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 236
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company