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2005 Summers suggests at an economics conference that the dearth of tenured female professors in the sciences and engineering might be attributable to “issues of intrinsic aptitude.”
These days, Summers is seldom mentioned in the press without some reference to the numerous public scandals that have forced his foot into his mouth since those early days in Washington. Over the course of the last six weeks, as public outrage over Summers’ remarks suggesting differences of...
THERE WAS SOMETHING SELF-DESTRUCTIVE ABOUT Harvard University President Larry Summers' speech on gender disparities in January. In his first sentence, he said his goal was "provocation" (rarely a wise strategy at a diversity conference). He called for "rigorous and careful" thinking to explain the gender gap among top-tier...
WISHR’s fix for this “problem” is as startling as the problem itself: WISHR policy committee co-chairs Tracy E. Nowski ’07 and Patricia Li ’07 suggested special optional sections just for female students. Why? If, as...
But Summers declined yesterday to readdress the substance of his talk last month, in which he suggested that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” partly account for the underrepresentation of women in the sciences.