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Hopkins began her career at Radcliffe planning to major in math, but it was an introductory biology lecture by James Watson that “pretty much determined the course of my life,” she says...
...that he is “a member of our tribe” and that “he’s using analysis that we can understand,” but she says that Summers cited well-established data about variance in high school students’ math test scores that has been used in “countless scholarly papers...
...have the low social satisfaction ratings that exist today. The old yearbook features pictures of nearly 25 social club buildings scattered around the Harvard campus. With only 600 students in the 1915 graduating class (as opposed to around 1600 today), it’s easy to do the math and see that many more Harvard students once had the opportunity enjoy their own social venue...
...felt that if I said something stupid in my math class, I wasn’t just a bad student, but I was a stupid woman among male students and a male professor,” adds Hamelin, who was “briefly a math concentrator” during her time at Harvard...
Women are fighting new battles now as well: to increase the percentage of women in the ranks of the faculty and to encourage more women to study math and the sciences...