Harvard University President Revealed to Be Not That Smart

This is why everyone should be required to take a sociology of gender course: the president of Harvard University, an economist by training, dredged up the quaint notion that women are biologically inferior to men when it comes to math and science ability. There is no defensible research to support this! Furthermore, he questioned whether the low proportion of female professors in these disciplines relative to the proportion of females who are actually getting doctorates in these disciplines is really due to discrimination. (Christ. The academic tenure system is completely based on the historical model of male academics with wives at home to take care of their children and type up their manuscripts. It's institutional sexism. For female academics, it pretty much boils down to a choice between getting tenure or having children. Very few tendured female professors have children, while most of the males do.)

This Harvard guy eventually apologized to the accomplished female scientists that were at this meeting, but whatever. Biological explanations for why women are second class citizens - haven't we been here before?