Explor­ing the ten­sions between Meir’s per­son­al and polit­i­cal iden­ti­ties, The Only Woman in the Room pro­vides a ground­break­ing new account of Meir’s life while also illu­mi­nat­ing the dif­fi­cul­ties all women face as they try to ascend in male-dom­i­nat­ed fields.