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...April, the office enlisted more than two dozen female math and science concentrators to make phone calls to all accepted female students who had expressed a strong interest in science on their applications...
...President Lawrence H. Summers was exempt from Russert’s satirical scrutinizing lens. Referring to Summers’ controversial remarks on women in science earlier this year, Russert even added after one anecdote that Summers must now appreciate that “women are not only good at math, they have a good sense of humor...
...sciences and engineering—he suggested some possible reasons for why there are fewer women in the sciences, ranging from women’s focus on family to the possibility that women’s brains are wired differently, giving them a disadvantage in science and math. These suggestions were taken from the studies of other scientists, but the potential veracity of the statements does not make the address any less controversial. We firmly support academic discourse on controversial subjects and would not want to limit this freedom. However, Summers has a dual role—as an academic...
...problem runs deeper than potential offense. Since Summers has taken office in 2001, the number of new tenured women faculty has dropped each year. Last year, only 12.5 percent of new tenured faculty were women. The crisis is especially severe in the fields of science and math. In Harvard’s history, only one woman has ever been tenured in the Chemistry Department—Richards Professor of Chemistry Cynthia Friend. With such a dearth of women faculty, Summers’ comments do not simply seem offensive; they seem like excuses. When addressing a problem of this magnitude...
...uninformed,” in an interview with The Crimson that month. And Xie said he accepted Summers’ comments as “scholarly propositions,” although he said his own analysis “goes against Larry’s suggestion that math ability is something innate...