Word: aptitudeã
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...tenure offers began to brim last summer, when a group of professors expressed its disappointment with the numbers in a letter to Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, it did not explode until Summers suggested on Jan. 14 that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might be responsible for the dearth of female professors in the sciences...
...policy took the bulk of the question-and-answer session that followed Summers’ remarks, although the students also addressed other topics—including Harvard’s place in the public eye and Summers’ controversial January remarks that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? may be responsible for a dearth of women scientists. Those comments sparked strong criticism from many professors and culminated in a March vote of no confidence in Summers’ leadership...
...claims, but they are reasonable given what we know in the literature,” Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, whose book “The Blank Slate” provided some of the basis for Summers’ emphasis on “intrinsic aptitude?? in his remarks, said in March...
...that ‘aptitude?? is the second most important reason that women don’t get to the top when he leads an institution that is 50 percent women students—that’s profoundly disturbing to me,” Hopkins told The Crimson on Jan. 17 “He shouldn’t admit women to Harvard if he’s going to announce when they come that, ‘hey, we don’t feel that you can make...
After issuing his apology, Summers also met with female professors and disavowed his earlier suggestion that “intrinsic aptitude?? may account for the underrepresentation of women on elite science faculties. But the damage was done...