Word: aptitudeã
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Since she walked out of Summers’ January speech at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference in a statement of disagreement with the president’s comments about women’s “intrinsic aptitude?? for science, Hopkins has been both exalted as a crusader and assailed as a hysterical feminist who stifles free academic discourse...
...suggestion that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might be responsible for the dearth of women professors in the sciences sparked what many saw as an inevitable explosion, as criticisms of Summers’ remarks rapidly transformed into broader concerns with his leadership on many different fronts...
Professors who have long urged Harvard to implement reforms benefiting female faculty members say they found an administrative ear this semester, after University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women’s “intrinsic aptitude?? for science threw the problems faced by female faculty members into the spotlight...
Though he has tried hard to distance himself from the remarks that sparked his current troubles, Summers is unlikely to ever fully shed the phrase “intrinsic aptitude?? from his legacy. It’s a reality that can’t sit well with the president. Speaking to students in Lowell House this spring, Summers said, “I can tell you from fairly extensive personal experience, people cannot catch up fully from derogatory, untrue stories merely through their correction...
...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...