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Monday, May 16, 2024
  Take that, Larry Summers, Indeed
Kathy Paur, a Harvard graduate student in mathematics, spoke at Dartmouth on the subject of Larry Summers' remarks on women in science and math. Let's just say she's not a big fan of the Harvard president.

Among some of the things Paur mentioned:

—Harvard's math department has no tenured female professors
—Since Summers became president, the number of women teaching in the math department has steadily declined
—The math department has offered tenure to five women that Paur knows of, but all said no—evidence, she claims, of a department culture hostile to women, because people don't usually say no to Harvard
—according to research she conducted on men's and women's scores on math tests around the world, Summers' theory of intrinsic differences in aptitude is wrong
--out of 60 speakers at Harvard math colloquiums in the past six years, none were women

Sounds like the math department has some explaining to do....
 
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