Word: gendered
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...said Summers’ suggestion that this apparent gender gap accounts for the under-representation of females in science and engineering is “too simplistic...
...Crimson last night, Summers stressed that he only cited Xie and Shauman’s research as evidence that females are underrepresnted among the top 5 percent of test-takers on standardized assessments. Summers said the evidence for his speculative hypothesis that biological differences may partially account for this gender gap comes instead from scholars cited in Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker’s bestselling 2002 book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature...
Shauman noted that societal factors might produce gender disparities in achievement even among eighth graders. “What was disappointing about [Summers’] comments was the kind of privileging of biology over socialization,” Shauman said...
...biological interpretation [of the gender gap] to hold, it is necessary that both of the following assumptions be true,” the authors write on page 41. “[First,] the relationship between the measured aspects of brain functioning and math/science achievement is causal. [Second,] gender differences in thee aspects of brain functioning are biologically biased...
...Radcliffe Union of Students, for example, is planning a meeting with other women’s groups and faculty to produce a comprehensive analysis of gender discrimination, similar to an MIT report advanced by biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64. Hopkins blasted Summers’ remarks after walking out in the middle of his speech on Friday...