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Scientists refute gender claims

Professors say society is responsible for gender imbalance in sciences

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, January 31, 2005

While science provides support for Harvard President Lawrence Summers's implication that neurological differences between the sexes exist, Yale scientists said there is little proof that this asymmetry accounts for superior or inferior cognitive aptitudes in science.

Scientists at Yale said personal experience and a growing body of empirical evidence suggest that social expectations -- not biology -- are responsible for women's under-representation in university sciences and mathematics.

Studies have shown men and women use different regions of their brains for...

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