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Last Thursday, Summers bowed to pressure from the faculty and released the transcript of his contentious Jan. 14 remarks on women and science...
...days later came the full transcript of the notorious remarks by the president of her university, Lawrence Summers, who evidently has no shortage of theories about women and achievement. The document confirmed what Summers had reportedly said a month earlier in a closed-door session in which he gave his ideas about genetics and gender. "In the special case of science and engineering," he said, "there are issues of intrinsic aptitude." He did allow for the fact that he might be wrong. But he wasn't finished drawing new battle lines in the gender wars. He went on to speculate...
...data will, I am confident, reveal that Catholics are substantially underrepresented in investment banking ... that white men are very substantially underrepresented in the National Basketball Association; and that Jews are very substantially underrepresented in farming." LARRY SUMMERS, Harvard University president, in a transcript released last week, comparing these groups with women whom he noted were underrepresented in the academic fields of science and math. He has drawn fire for suggesting that innate differences?as well as social factors?may account for the gender...
...transcript provided by Summers’ office yesterday did not name Denton as the questioner, but Catherine J. Didion, director of the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists and a conference attendee, said it was Denton...
Posing an ironically prescient query to Summers, Donna J. Nelson, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, asked if a transcript of the president’s remarks would be released...