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While the public spotlight was focused on University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks, one female economist was quietly attempting to place the current debate about the gender gap in various academic and career fields into a larger historical context.
While Goldin says she does not consider “innate” differences between men and women a satisfactory explanation for the underrepresentation of women in various careers and academic fields, the point seems to be moot—Goldin argues that Summers was not talking about ?...
Spurred by their previous research and urged by Summers, who met with the pair last summer, Goldin and Katz have started a project to study the career paths of thousands of Harvard graduates to track and explain any gender gaps in various career fields.
Seventy-five candidates, who constitute nearly five percent of the graduating class, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree awarded by the College, in their fields of concentration. Sixty-two candidates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework and overall grade point average...
McGregor drew an analogy between the self-forged post-graduate path of Harvard students and rock-climbing. Pasternack urged seniors to continue to freely and deeply dabble in fields as they have done as undergraduates at Harvard.