Boston Globe: Gender debate revived at Harvard
The controversy sparked by former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers in 2005 when he questioned women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science may be over, but the issue continues to provoke lively debate on campus.
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Yesterday afternoon, Rosalind Chait Barnett of Brandeis University and Steven E. Rhoads of the University of Virginia offered students vastly different takes on women’s scientific prowess and why they make the professional choices they do, during a seminar titled “What Larry Summers and Nancy Hopkins Didn’t Say: Women in Science.”