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...budgets will likely outshine women who have fewer resources. At the university level, male science students may be increasingly prejudiced against their female peers when forming study groups, and women looking for their academic niches might be steered toward other disciplines where they perceive they are more likely to succeed. To the extent that Harvard is seen as a model for other universities, these patterns of behavior could resonate nationwide...
...from genetic blueprints. The suggestion that gender differences affect scientific aptitude is also problematic, as it reinforces a gender hierarchy that gives preference to male behavior over female behavior and fails to recognize other genders altogether. Additionally, these beliefs promote the anti-feminist message that women are able to succeed only to the extent that they behave like men, which I would hope President Summers does not support...
While Shauman said that “people who go on to be Nobel laureates in the science probably are in that higher tail” of scores on standardized tests, both she and Xie emphasized that individuals can succeed in science even if they don’t perform amazingly well on achievement exams as high school students...
...have very high-achieving women who choose not to go into science. We also have very low-achieving men who choose to go into—and succeed in—science,” Shauman said...
...democracy is tempered by an ever present dread. On patrol in Mosul last week, Pangelinan's unit stopped in front of an old man's house. As Americans handed out candy to neighborhood children, Pangelinan asked the Iraqi how he thought the election would go. "Hopefully it will succeed in Mosul," the man said. Pangelinan responded, "I know it will." A few minutes later, after Pangelinan and his men had moved on, a car bomb detonated in the distance, sending a halo of white smoke into the air. --With reporting by Charles Crain/ Mosul, Aparisim Ghosh/Baghdad, Helen Gibson/ London...