Word: gendered
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...grant that it is likely, as President Summers alleges, that he made this hypothesis “in the spirit of academic inquiry,” intending to provoke a scholarly investigation into the causes behind the current gender disparity in math and science. But while there is scientific merit in exploring these possibilities as a thought experiment conducted in private or as a controlled scientific study, the remarks at Friday’s conference fit neither of these models, despite the exclusive character of the gathering. Summers may have been invited to speak as an economist, but he cannot...
While the women at last Friday’s conference were understandably provoked by President Summers’ comments, one might argue that they are not justified in taking offense at his remarks. After all, under the hypothesis that innate gender differences do exist in the scientific aptitude, it is quite possible that those women, who represent the nation’s leading scholars, were exceptions to the trend of female inferiority, and hence this belief does not directly provide a judgment on their individual merits. The same may be alleged of the Harvard female science concentrators that President Summers...
...also troubled by Summers’ implied association of innate ability in science and mathematics with “innate” qualities of gender (such as a predilection to name trucks “daddy truck” and “baby truck”), both of which he ties to an individual’s biological sex. In doing so he ignores the scholarship that describes ways in which gender expression and our perceptions thereof are constructed as a result of societal practices instead of from genetic blueprints. The suggestion that gender differences affect scientific aptitude...
...mathematics. It is important that I earn the respect of my peers, who will one day be my colleagues, for my talents and not as a statistical anomaly: a woman who is adept at mathematical reasoning. I do not expect that science and mathematics will ever be blind to gender, but obsessing over sex characteristics is not going to help end discrimination practices...
...Undergraduate Council maintains in policy its position against discrimination and stereotyping on the basis of ancestry, nationality, creed, philosophy, economic disadvantage, physical disability, mental illness or disorders, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, and the Council makes an exceptionally strong effort to uphold such principles in practice. Overwhelmingly, the Council has reaffirmed time and again its commitment thereto by supporting multicultural and tolerance-fostering activities and by steadfastly refusing to support organizations and projects that would knowingly lead to discrimination and unfair prejudice. While we wish that the Council had the power to cleanse...