Word: intrinsice
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Since she walked out of Summers’ January speech at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference in a statement of disagreement with the president’s comments about women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science, Hopkins has been both exalted...
His suggestion that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the dearth of women professors in the sciences sparked what many saw as an inevitable explosion, as criticisms of Summers’ remarks rapidly transformed into broader concerns with his leadership on many different...
In that roughly 40-minute speech, Summers managed to utter some variation of the phrase “it seems to me” a whopping 18 times. At the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in January, when Summers ruminated on the intrinsic aptitude of women, he said ?...
Professors who have long urged Harvard to implement reforms benefiting female faculty members say they found an administrative ear this semester, after University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science threw the problems faced by female...
Just four days later, Summers would speak at a now-infamous conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He would attempt to explain the scarcity of women on elite science faculties. He would use the phrase “intrinsic aptitude.” And, suddenly, the future was...