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Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn explained in an e-mail yesterday that “there are two types offactors that could allow innate characteristics to explain whether a person (male or female) chooses a career in science, namely ‘indirect’ and ‘direct...
...biological factors determine comfort level in combative situations, then gender differences could partially explain the underrepresentation of females in elite academic science, Kosslyn said. But he noted that “one’s comfort level in combative situations might have nothing to do with innate factors...but instead might reflect socialization...
...easy to impress judges with heavily connoted words like ‘virus,’ ‘pirate,’ ‘terrorist,’ ‘hacker’ and it’s difficult on the other hand to explain the scientific method and the deep curiosity that makes us analyze how software works and find their flaws,” Tena wrote last March on his website...
Indeed, while we are firmly opposed to censoring academic discussion on controversial topics, citing innate differences to explain gender inequalities can be a dangerous approach—especially when the comments are made by the president of a university that has such a problem with female faculty tenure rates. We want our University president to lead the discussions on ways to overcome gender inequalities—not to offer ways to rationalize them. As the letter from the Standing Committee on Women told Summers, “your efforts to ‘provoke’ your audience...
...request of symposium organizers, Summers delivered a luncheon talk to 50 academics in which he presented several hypotheses to explain the scarcity of female scientists at top universities...