In India, five of six winners of a prestigious scholarship are female scientists.

Telegraph of India columnist Ayswaria Venugop writes, “Not that the achievement would change either Summers’s opinion — although the gentleman did say sorry — or the “innate differences” between the sexes that he talks of, but it surely is indication that, like in several other areas, women are slowly breaking through the scientific glass ceiling.”

The achievements of women in science in non-American cultures has always been one of the most obvious pieces of circumstantial evidence against Summers’ women-in-science theory. Ironic that Summers, who is a great proponent of students traveling overseas, would not have noticed that female scientists are not always discriminated against elsewhere as they are in this country.

*New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, who has traveled to India many times, is a great friend of Larry Summers.