Gender & Science

Here's some interesting follow up to this story. First, a story that ran on NPR's All Things Considered today:

A Look at Research on Gender and the Sciences
David Kestenbaum, himself a particle physicist, examines what the scientific evidence shows about this subject.
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And second, from the Feminist Majority Foundation's newswire:

Under Pressure, Harvard President Announces Program to Recruit More Women
Succumbing to pressure by women's rights groups and prominent women scientists and academicians like Sally Ride and Donna Hopkins, Harvard President Lawrence Summers has announced the initiation of a new program at the university to recruit women a week after suggesting at an academic conference that women have less innate ability to perform in science and mathematics than men. Summers defended his comments over the past week, maintaining that he was merely suggesting that the role of discrimination and innate abilities of women and men in the sciences need further research. However, in an open letter to the Harvard community, he committed Harvard to “recognize and reduce barriers to the advancement of women in science,” including making it easier for faculty to balance work and family.
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