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Each academic year since he became University president, the percentage of women offered tenured jobs has declined. Ironically, these controversial remarks on women in the sciences were made before a group of distinguished female scientists—the very people he should be actively courting. As a letter from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Women notes, Summers’ comments would “impede our current efforts to recruit top women scholars” to the University. Many female science students were also offended and hurt by his suggestion, and over fifty professors have...
...especially when the comments are made by the president of a university that has such a problem with female faculty tenure rates. We want our University president to lead the discussions on ways to overcome gender inequalities—not to offer ways to rationalize them. As the letter from the Standing Committee on Women told Summers, “your efforts to ‘provoke’ your audience did not serve our institution well...
...after apologizing in an open letter to the Harvard community, University President Lawrence H. Summers met last night with female professors and disavowed his earlier suggestion that “innate differences” between the sexes may account for the underrepresentation of women on elite science faculties...
Last night’s apology came on top of a letter Summers sent responding to the Standing Committee Tuesday night in which he wrote that he “had hoped to stimulate research on many interrelated factors that bear on women’s careers in science...
...full text of Summers’ letter is available online at www.president.harvard.edu...