Word: genderism
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Kirby did not address the issues surrounding Summers at last Tuesday’s meeting, though he did outline six steps FAS will undertake in order to increase its gender diversity...
...single most significant impact of University President Lawrence H. Summers on my department during my time as chair was that of enlightenment, in a profound way, on gender issues. He dissected and criticized the process by which we were analyzing our candidates for appointments and promotions. He researched our methods to a degree that was stunning, and my reporting of his methods to our department had a profound effect. He had to be taken seriously initially if for no other reason than the enormous effort that he put into this undertaking. After months of discussions at numerous, consecutive Faculty meetings...
...transcript of the notorious remarks by the president of her university, Lawrence Summers, who evidently has no shortage of theories about women and achievement. The document confirmed what Summers had reportedly said a month earlier in a closed-door session in which he gave his ideas about genetics and gender. "In the special case of science and engineering," he said, "there are issues of intrinsic aptitude." He did allow for the fact that he might be wrong. But he wasn't finished drawing new battle lines in the gender wars. He went on to speculate that women, especially when they...
...farming." LARRY SUMMERS, Harvard University president, in a transcript released last week, comparing these groups with women whom he noted were underrepresented in the academic fields of science and math. He has drawn fire for suggesting that innate differences?as well as social factors?may account for the gender...
...month of uproar over Summers’ remarks, critics have largely focused their outrage on his suggestion that gender differences might account for the underrepresentation of women in science...