The Conference Radcliffe Wouldn’t Hold, in the Globe
Posted on April 12th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
The Globe covers Harvey Mansfield’s “feminism” conference, and mostly the ongoing debate about the relationship between gender and intelligence. 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.” …While there may be fewer women involved in math and science, Rhoads said, they tend to dominate in the field of psychology and the humanities. But this disparity has not raised concerns among academics, he said.“We’re not going to have affirmative action for men going into child development,” he said. “I don’t see that argument being made.
3 Responses
4/12/2023 12:43 pm
That was eleven seconds of my life I’ll never get back.
Catatonic Eagle
4/12/2023 1:47 pm
Have a drink. You’ll feel better about it.
4/12/2023 2:02 pm
yup