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Russia Talk Radio in Chicago has reported that Larry Summers will wear an evening gown for the rest of the year, according to Gadfly’s immigrant grandma. The gesture, the station said, will be an apology to the women in science he offended with his comments at NBER...
Summers’s remarks last night are his latest attempt at making amends following his controversial comments to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in January. The president had said that the shortage of women in scientific fields was more the result of variances in “intrinsic aptitude” than of social factors. He later apologized for his remarks...
Responding to a question about his now-infamous January remarks on women in science at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Summers outlined a broad four-point agenda to alleviate the pressures faced by faculty members with young families...
Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, an organizer of the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) conference where Summers made his now-famous remarks, expressed doubt that such a plan could work at large universities like Harvard or Yale...
...spite of my objections, I can see why the Coalition has timed raising its concerns to capitalize on Summers’ NBER gaffe. It’s terribly unfair to Harvard’s beleaguered president, but it makes some sense. Their final two demands, however, condemned the e-mail to my computer’s trash bin: “demanding that Harvard take steps to dismantle the final club system,” and, “the democratization of administrative decision-making...