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...letter to the Faculty this afternoon, Summers once again apologized for the speech, which came at a Jan. 14 conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER...
January 14 of this year saw fair Harvard get more than its fair share of headlines and airtime. At a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University President Lawrence H. Summers proved too provocative for his audience. He promptly found himself in the middle of a media firestorm over his citing of the hypothesis that women trailed men in innate ability in mathematics and science. That evening, controversial Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly took on another Harvard news item—the College’s hiring of a so-called...
Faust is also a member of the FAS Standing Committee on Women, the group of female professors who chastised Summers in a letter released Tuesday, saying that his controversial remarks to a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) “serve to reinforce the institutional culture at Harvard that erects numerous barriers to improving the representation of women on the faculty...
...Friday, Faust declined to comment on her own personal reaction to Summers’ NBER speech...
...that some researchers have hypothesized that “innate differences” between men and women affect their scientific abilities. These differences, if real, might explain part of the discrepancy in their representation on prestigious science faculties, he told a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last Friday. Nobody present at the conference has claimed that Summers said women cannot or should not be top-notch scientists. In fact, Summers is said to have explicitly hoped “to be proven wrong on this one.” But some think that acknowledgment of differences...