Word: aptitudeã
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...presidents—Stanford’s John Hennessy, MIT’s Susan Hockfield, and Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman—penned an op-ed for The Boston Globe that appeared to criticize Summers’ now infamous remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science. “The question we must ask as a society is not ‘can women excel in math, science, and engineering?’—Marie Curie exploded that myth a century ago?...
...withhold seniors’ donations until the University divested from PetroChina, a company intimately involved with the Sudanese government and by extension with the genocide in Darfur. Still more seniors were dissuaded from donating by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science. Senior Gift was effectively co-opted to serve one of a number of political causes completely unrelated to the spirit of the Gift itself, even though there were many other avenues by which these divergent political beliefs could have been expressed. One part...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in math and science led to a discourse on an issue that should be, but often isn’t, addressed. Subsequently, major papers (the Times, the Washington Post) and magazines (Time, Newsweek, the Economist) followed up on the issue, publishing what gender studies have actually shown...
Several students who spoke to FM wonder if the College administration’s renewed focus on creating a women’s center has anything to do with combating the PR nightmare caused by Summers’ infamous Jan. 14 remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science...
...began to brim last summer, when a group of professors expressed its disappointment with the tenure numbers in a letter to Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, it did not begin to boil until Summers suggested on Jan. 14 that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might be responsible for the dearth of female professors in the sciences. The firestorm over those comments—and over broader concerns with Summers’ leadership that were voiced in a series of contentious Faculty meetings—culminated in a March 15 FAS vote...