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...wake of the controversy surrounding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ January remarks that “differences in intrinsic aptitude?? may explain the underrepresentation of women in science, the Harvard Undergraduate Admissions Office has enlisted more than two dozen female math and science concentrators to call all accepted female students who expressed a strong interest in science on their applications...
...remarks last night are his latest attempt at making amends following his controversial comments to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in January. The president had said that the shortage of women in scientific fields was more the result of variances in “intrinsic aptitude?? than of social factors. He later apologized for his remarks...
...discussion came about two months after University President Lawrence H. Summers suggested in Jan. 14 remarks at a National Bureau of Economics Research conference that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might be responsible for the underrepresentation of female scientists. The panelists jokingly referred to Summers’ comments as “one-fourteen...
Most of the last thirty minutes of yesterday’s discussion concerned the fallout from Summers’ January remarks on differences in “intrinsic aptitude?? in science between men and women, for which he has since apologized...
...professor on the panel, has played a key role in the controversy that has intensified the spotlight on how Harvard’s tenure process impacts women. It was she who first told the Boston Globe about Summers’ remarks on possible differences in “intrinsic aptitude?? in science between the genders at an economics conference in January...