In defense of Summers: why equal isn't identical
By my count, Harvard president Lawrence Summers has now apologized about a half dozen times for his remarks at a conference in January on the expansion of the role of women in science and engineering. According to the accounts of witnesses (there is no available transcript), Summers suggested that innate genetic difference between men and women might be among the factors that have led to heavy female underrepresentation in these fields -- though we know for sure that he considered social constraints on mothers and discrimination in universities to be important factors as well.
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