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...present time there are many theories as to why fewer women than men succeed in math and science, and until we can determine the effects of prejudice, socialization and innate biological differences on this distribution, it is important that we continue scientific research in this area. But in the meanwhile, the position of aspiring female scientists and mathematicians, like myself, is harmed by the prejudices that result from the assumption that our sex is destined to fail. Furthermore, President Summers’ expression of this hypothesis ignores the role that prejudice plays in the employment and evaluation of women...
...Crimson Staff has received an extremely large amount of letters on the subject of Harvard University President Larry Summers’ recent remarks before the National Bureau of Economic Research on females in math and science. With our dueling op-eds in this online issue, we hope to highlight two of the prevailing perspectives and avoid redundancy. Printed in the letters section are two of the more unique takes on the issue...
Gardner said that “Summers is correct that men are overrepresented at both ends of the bell curve in terms of math-science-spatial capabilities, just as they are overrepresented at both ends in terms of many conditions, both positive and pathological...
...about the natural mental capacities of the female sex.” After 136 years, it appears that Harvard presidents are still grappling with the same question. Last Friday, University President Lawrence H. Summers cited innate differences as a possible explanation for the lack of women in science and math. His comments have set off an explosion of controversy—both on this campus and across the country...
...fairness to Summers, it is important to set the record straight: He did not claim that women are inherently inferior to men in math and science skills as popular perception seems to have it. At a conference on women and minorities in science and engineering, Summers listed some possible explanations for why only a small number of women excel at elite levels of scientific study, and one of the theories he cited states that women have an innate disadvantage in math and science aptitude. As far as we can tell, he was not espousing his own beliefs, but merely listing...