Word: genderism
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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...
...said Summers’ suggestion that this apparent gender gap accounts for the under-representation of females in science and engineering is “too simplistic...
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...