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...Even at companies with top-notch outside managers, maintaining the bloodline remains paramount. At Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, tycoon Li Ka-shing has been among Asia's most adept at attracting external professional managers, but ultimately, observers believe he'll eventually pass on the chairmanship to his eldest son, Victor. "There's a history of trying to keep things in the family," says shareholder-rights activist David Webb in Hong Kong...
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 Summers’ critics have so vehemently argued, there are no innate differences between men’s and women’s respective aptitudes in the sciences, there should be no need for such special classes. WISHR’s only possible defense is some claim to differences...
WISHR’s other concerns are similarly flawed. The Crimson reported Wednesday that, “Li and Nowski said that the potentially stressful experience of placement exams can turn women off from the heavy competition in the sciences.” There are two possible conclusions: either women are somehow less able to cope with the stress of placement exams than men, or placement exams are generally stressful, in point of fact, for all students. I tend to believe the latter explanation: the tests are scary, period. Their difficulty and the stress that surrounds them cannot be used...
...Li didn’t stop there: she cited “science courses’ incompatibility with a study abroad program” as one of the “leading reasons why fewer women declare concentrations in science.” Li didn’t give any indication why this reason shouldn’t also apply to international-minded male scientists. Like most of WISHR’s concerns, this is a very valuable one, but it really has no specific connection to women in Harvard’s science programs...
These issues, combined with science courses’ incompatibility with a study abroad program, are the leading reasons why fewer women declare concentrations in science at the end of freshman year, according to Li...