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...nothing else, Summers' gaffes have provided new motivation for many Harvard groups to play hardball on their own behalf. His remarks on women's advancement in math and science raised some "important questions, and we should find the answers," says economics professor Claudia Goldin. Summers, she says, "said things I want to prove wrong." --With reporting by Matt Kelly/Boston
When Summers suggested at a Jan. 14 conference that innate differences between the genders might help explain why fewer women succeed in math and science, he intended to provoke an intellectual debate among a small group of academics. But because of that world-renowned brand name, Summers wound up drawing international attention to Harvard's own shortage of female professors, bolstering a perception that the school isn't welcoming to women and minority academics, and enraging many faculty members, students and alumni of both genders. "It's not appropriate for the man who holds in his hands the future...
...only??it??were??still??2001. Back then, George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act sailed through Congress with little opposition. But now that Bush has announced a plan to expand his signature education law--which requires yearly testing in math and reading for students in Grades 3 through 8--to include the first three years of high school, his proposal is generating little enthusiasm on either side of the aisle...
Banaji wrote in an e-mail from India yesterday that “the implicit, not to mention explicit, stereotype associating math with male has been demonstrated time and again to affect women’s performance on math and their attitudes toward math...
...academia, the resulting international media ruckus, presumably unintentional, has at least brought the issue to the attention of the general public. There is one major source of female under-representation that begins too early for university employment policies to affect directly: too many young girls are dissuaded from studying math and science, even by their own parents and teachers. More public awareness, beyond the confines of academic discussion, can only be helpful in tackling this much larger issue...