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...diversity, is the first to be publicly released by Hammonds’ office, established last July at the recommendation of two task forces on women. The forces were created in the uproar following outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ Jan. remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women for science.Hammonds said the childcare initiatives are intended to seal the “leaky pipeline” present at Harvard, in which the percentage of female faculty falls from at least one third to less than a quarter from the junior to senior ranks.The trend...
...feel like I’m in a time warp,” Skocpol told the Chronicle. This comment came one month before University President Lawrence H. Summers told the National Bureau of Economic Research that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might explain the dearth of female scientists at Harvard and throughout higher education.Summers’ comments, which Skocpol called “the presidential speech heard around the world” in her April comments to Appleton Chapel, triggered the well-known firestorm of criticism. Soon after, Skocpol built a reputation...
Kirby noted the “issues of diversity and inclusiveness” that were brought into focus in the course of professors’ fight with the president, which intensified in January 2005 after Summers made his comments on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science...
...women’s leadership, receiving extended applause at the end of his 30-minute speech and words of praise from numerous audience members. But it was a prickly subject for the embattled president, who made headlines last year when he hypothesized that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might partially explain the dearth of females in science and engineering fields. “You can imagine that I was a little bit puzzled as to what I should say in speaking to a conference on women in leadership,” Summers joked at the beginning...
...opinion pages made the same contention, attributing Summers’ ouster to the political correctness of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Wall Street Journal focused on Summers’ encounter with Cornel West, his support of the military, and his comments on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science as the causes of Faculty discontent. The Journal portrayed the Faculty as “largely left-wing” with “about as much intellectual diversity as the Pyongyang parliament.” Arguing from the same viewpoint, The Washington Post...