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Innate differences. Though never actually uttered by University President Lawrence H. Summers in his remarks on Jan. 14 at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference, a newspaper could not be opened or a television channel changed without confronting these two words in the early part of the year. Indeed, Summers’ actual comments soon swirled from a media storm to a full-on faculty hurricane. As public scrutiny of Summers—and Harvard—has finally started to die down, we hope that the University can return to truly important concerns like the number...
...aftermath of Summers’ remarks—which were delivered at a Jan. 14 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference and made media headlines nationwide—administrators convened the Task Forces on Women Faculty and Women in Science and Engineering...
...NBER conference, a few hours before Summers’ speech abruptly returned Harvard’s—and the national media’s—attention to women in science, Grosz presented a report on women in science and engineering at Harvard, in which she mentioned the same pipeline problems that appear in the May task force reports...
...allegations of insensitivity and bad facts turned to accusations of poor leadership, it was apparent that Summers’ remarks, delivered at a closed Jan. 14 conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), were the straw that broke the camel’s back...
...admission, Summers came to the NBER conference ready to give a speech with “some attempts at provocation” rather than “an institutional talk” on Harvard’s policies. He was there, he said, to discuss “the issue of women’s representation in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions.” Summers presented three hypotheses—predicated in part on research, part on his own observations—to explain the observed underrepresentation of female scientists and engineers...