Women In Science The Times has a long, almost rambling piece on the subject of women in science.

Organizers of these [women in science] events dismiss the idea voiced in 2005 by Lawrence H. Summers, then president of Harvard, that women over all are handicapped as scientists because as a group they are somehow innately deficient in mathematics. The organizers point to ample evidence that any performance gap between men and women is changeable and is shrinking to the vanishing point.

Instead, they talk about what they have to know and do to get ahead. They talk about unspoken, even unconscious sexism that means they must be better than men to be thought as good — that they must, as one Rice participant put it, literally and figuratively wear a suit and heels, while men can relax in jeans.

For at least 50% of the population, the women-in-science gaffe lives on...

And remember how, yesterday, the Crimson spoke to a group of alumni who all voiced their support of Larry Summers? This article reminds me that the Crimson didn't actually speak to any alumnae....

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