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...effort to address concerns sparked by the recent controversial comments of University President Lawrence H. Summers, Women In Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR) is working with undergraduates to lobby ideas for increasing academic and financial resources available to Harvard’s women in science...
Already, four representatives of WISHR have met with Summers and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to mount suggestions focusing on the undergraduate experience of female science concentrators...
...news story “Women in Science Discuss Changes” (News, Feb. 23) and the subsequent comment by Adam Goldenberg (“Mixed Messages,” Feb. 25), based on this news story that misrepresented the Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe’s (WISHR) Feb. 22 “Think Tank” meeting. As two members of the Harvard community who are not members of WISHR (the news story wrongly reported that Tracy E. Nowski ’07 is the co-chair of a WISHR policy group), we attended this meeting...
...with such a structure, notably that it might serve to reinforce the misconception that women are innately less capable in science. The story entirely evaded this critical development in the meeting, and it is unfortunate that this inaccurate reporting served as fodder for Goldenberg’s claim that WISHR is suggesting “a set of explanations almost completely in-line with Summers’ erstwhile prescription,” which is simply not the case...
...lesson to be taken from the Summers’ controversy is that truthful reporting of discussions is essential to furthering productive debate. To answer Goldenberg’s question, “What do women want?”—women and men alike, including WISHR and those who attend their brainstorming sessions, want to contribute to the discourse that will help promote women’s participation in the sciences at Harvard, but they can only do so if their ideas are accurately represented to the Harvard community...