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...after apologizing in an open letter to the Harvard community, University President Lawrence H. Summers met last night with female professors and disavowed his earlier suggestion that “innate differences?? between the sexes may account for the underrepresentation of women on elite science faculties...
First Summers just stated a fact: that some researchers have hypothesized that “innate differences?? between men and women affect their scientific abilities. These differences, if real, might explain part of the discrepancy in their representation on prestigious science faculties, he told a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last Friday. Nobody present at the conference has claimed that Summers said women cannot or should not be top-notch scientists. In fact, Summers is said to have explicitly hoped “to be proven wrong on this...
...even more problematic than the viscerally anti-Summers speculation is the lack of understanding of the nature of the academic inquiry in which Summers engaged. Summers acknowledged the existence of the “innate differences?? hypothesis at a conference at which scholars presented and heard research, not in a discussion of university or public policy. Society at large, and academics in particular, must respect the bounds of academic discourse—at least when the discourse is either grounded in fact to the extent possible or self-consciously speculative. When any scholar presents a legitimate academic theory...
Facing mounting pressure on campus and in the national press, University President Lawrence H. Summers issued last night his most extensive apology since suggesting on Friday that “innate differences?? between the sexes may account in part for the underrepresentation of women on elite science faculties...
Goldin and Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard Freeman both said that after Summers speculated that “innate differences?? might explain the underrepresentation of females on elite faculties, he explicitly told the audience: “I’d like to be proven wrong on this...