Friday, January 14, 2005
Harvard President, Dr. Lawrence Summers, while attending and speaking at an event co-sponsored by the Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The National Bureau of Economic Research entitled DIVERSIFYING THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING WORKFORCE: WOMEN, UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES, AND THEIR S&E CAREERS in Massachusetts, MA said that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Summers also questioned how much of a role discrimination plays in the dearth of female professors in science and engineering at elite universities.
Also in attendance at the event were, Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Denice D. Denton, chancellor designate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Anne C. Petersen, former deputy director of the National Science Foundation, Catherine Didion, former executive director of the Association for Women in Science, Donna J. Nelson, chemistry professor at the University of Oklahoma; and Sheila Tobias, a feminist author and proponent of women in science among others.
Conference Agenda
Recommended Conference reading list
Transcript of Lawrence Summers remarks
Monday, January 17, 2005
Boston Globe staff writer By Marcella Bombardieri and the Associated Press (AP) report on the statements and the event.
Summers’ Remarks on Women Draw Fire (Boston Globe)
Harvard President Sparks Uproar at conference for his comments on women(AP)
Summers’ Comments on Women and Science Draw Ire (Harvard Crimson)
Harvard president questions abilities in science, math (MSNBC)
Harvard President Sparks Uproar at conference for his comments on women (AP)(Boston Globe)
WISELI media tracking
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
WISELI’s Response
Just the Facts, Sir. – AAUW Responds to Harvard President’s Comments.
Harvard president touches off gender debate – (C-TV Canada)
Harvard President Criticized for his remarks (AP)(Boston Globe)
Harvard Chief Defends his Talk on Women (New York Times)
BBC 24 hour news and on radio (BBC)
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Who Belongs at Harvard? – by Virginia Valian (Hunter College of the City University of New York)
- Gender Equity Project – see Virginia Valian page on gender equity
Summers’ Tortured Logic (Boston Globe)
Summers’ Sense – (Boston Globe)
Harvard Women’s Group Rips Summers – (Boston Globe)
No Break in the Storm over Harvard President’s Words (New York Times)
Apology – Letter of Apology – Lawrence Summers
Satire – Women barred from Harvard presidency by “genetic predisposition,” study finds (Michael Bérubé)
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Harvard’s President Wonders Aloud About Women in Science and Math – Chronicle of Higher Education
Leaders in Technology Respond to Harvard President – (HPC Wire)
Women in sciences reject notion of inferiority (The North Jersey)
Summers contrite about remarks (Boston Globe)
Harvard President Apologizes Again for Remarks on Gender (New York Times)
Could Summers Have a Point About Women in Science? (NPR, All Things Considered – By Drew Westen)
Summers Off – (LATimes)
Der weibliche Makel – (Sueddeutsche Zeitung – Germany)
Apology – Harvard’s president apologizes for remarks ‘Innate differences’ comment drew women’s criticism – (Los Angeles Times)
Apology – Harvard’s Larry Summers Issues Third Apology for Gender Remarks – (Bloomberg)
Apology – Summers: ‘I Was Wrong’ – (Harvard Crimson)
Friday, January 21, 2005
Women, Science and Harvard (6 Letters) – view letters here. – (New York Times)
NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign - NOW (National Organization of Women) -
Harvard’s Crimson Face – (Time Magazine)
Different or Not - (Newsweek)
Professors respond to Harvard president’s comments on gender -
(Daily Princetonian)
Don’t Worry Your Pretty Little Head – (Slate Magazine)
Chill sets in at Harvard – (Boston Globe)
Harvard President Apologizes Again for Remarks on Gender – (New York Times)
Harvard chief apologizes for disparaging women – International Globe and Mail
Careless about words (Boston Globe)
Using Title IX to Ensure Equal Opportunity for Women in Math Science (Sen. Ron Wyden)
Harvard President’s Comments Demonstrate Need for…(Dr. Donna J. Nelson)
Apology – Summers: ‘I Made a Big Mistake’ (Harvard Crimson)
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Op-Ed: Summers is Right – Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz – (Boston Globe)
Op-Ed: Can Women Have It All? – Ellen Goodman -(Boston Globe)
Solving for XX: What science can (and can’t) tell Larry Summers about the difference between men and women” – Deborah Blum -(Boston Globe)
Different but (Probably) Equal – (New York Times Op-ed)
Lawrence Summers, Provocateur – (New York Times)
Op-Ed: Sex Ed at Harvard – (New York Times)
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Gender Gap Separates Harvard, Other Top Schools (Boston Globe)
Grey Matter and the Sexes: A Grey Area Scientifically – (New York Times Op-ed)
Are women not wired for science? – (Palm Beach Post)
Even Without Exams, Summers Stresses in January – (Harvard Crimson)
Uncomfortably, Hopkins Basks in Media Glow – (Harvard Crimson)
Faust to Lead New Initiative – (Harvard Crimson)
Letter to the Editor: My Daughter, the Molecular Biologist (Boston Globe)
Some Say Summers is Supposed to Heat Things Up (Boston Globe)
Alternative perspective – Staying mute on men vs. women differences (Chicago Tribune)
Alternative perspective – Op-Ed: Summers is Right – Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (Boston Globe)
Monday, January 24, 2005
Harvard man’s remarks should be wake-up call (San Jose Mercury News)
Grey Matter and the Sexes: A Grey Area Scientifically (New York Times)
Even Without Exams, Summers Stresses in January- (Harvard Crimson)
Uncomfortably, Hopkins Basks in Media Glow – (Harvard Crimson)
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Letter from Anita Borg Institute President – (Dr. Telle Whitney)
Letter to the Editor: Women Come Learn in Minnesota (Boston Globe)
Do Genes Play a Role in Science Gender Gap (Boston Globe)
Women and Science: A Look at Harvard Pres. Larry Summers – (Democracy Now)
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
At Harvard, the Bigger Concern of the Faculty is President’s Management Style – (New York Times)
What Summers should ask (Boston Globe)
Alternative perspective - Summers and the arrogant bandwagon (Christian Science Monitor)
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Women in Science and Math – (The Daine Rehm Show)
Friday, January 28, 2005
Harvard’s leader forgot who he is (San Jose Mercury News)
The Truth about Math, Science and Women (USA Today)
UC’s women scientists – editorial (SF Chronicle)
Encouragement, not gender, key to success in science (San Francisco Chronicle)
Harvard flap prompts query: How free is campus speech? (Christian Science Monitor)
Summers’s Comments Draw Attention to Gender, Racial Gaps (Science Magazine)
A Look at Research on Gender and the Sciences (NPR, All Things Considered)
The boys of the boardroom (Boston Globe)
Storming the Harvard Bastion (Globe and Mail)
Never mind criticism from men in the ‘hard’ sciences. I was told that ‘a good Muslim woman shouldn’t study for a PhD’
Don’t Let Larry Summers Off the Hook Yet (Slate)
Monday January 31, 2005
Raise Your Hand If You’re A Woman in Science . . . (Washington Post)
Harvard president under microscope (San Francisco Chronicle)
Female scientists debate comments on gender, science
Scientists refute gender claims (Yale Daily News)
Gender isn’t in the science equation (San Jose Mercury News)
Sex and Science (Newsweek)
The Guy of the Storm (Newsweek)
Few women in the sciences? ‘It’s the culture, stupid’ (dailyprincetonian.com)
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Can Harvard Ever Play a Positive Role for Women in Higher Education? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Alternative perspective – Campus exercise in anti-intellectualism (Washington Times)
Thursday, February, 3, 2005
Harvard University announces Task Forces on Women Faculty and Women in Science and Engineering (Harvard University Gazette)
Friday, February 4, 2005
Outcry Prompts Harvard President to Address Women’s Advancement in Science (Ms. Magazine)
Saturday, February 5, 2005
Researchers at Stanford forum take on gender in science debate (San Jose Mercury News)
Girls learn to steer their financial futures (San Jose Mercury News)
Monday, February 7, 2005
Forum questions Summers’ insights (Stanford Daily)
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Tilghman renews pledge to hire women (The Daily Princetonian)
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Advocating for Women (HHMI Bulletin)
Saturday, February 12, 2005
3 university chiefs chide Summers on remarks (Boston Globe)
Women in math, engineering and science: Drawing on our country’s entire talent pool (New Office, MIT)
Sunday, February 13, 2005
When Are You Guys Going to Get It? (LA Times)
Monday, February 14, 2005
Transcript of Lawrence Summers remarks
Tilghman, faculty call for efforts to support women in science (Princeton Weekly Bulletin)
Former Yale Provost Hockfield signs release critical of Summers (Yale Daily News)
Gender Gap: Some majors have disproportionate amount of one sex (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Summers given a scolding, faculty say (Boston Globe)
Letters to the Editor (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Summers’ Harvard Faculty Vote Fails to Get Response From Rubin (Bloomberg.com)
Friday, February 18, 2005
Furor Lingers as Harvard Chief Gives Details of Talk on Women (NYTimes)
Dear friends & colleagues (a letter from Telle Whitney)
Letter to U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and George Allen, here
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Harvard’s Free Mind (Washington Post)
Letter from the Harvard Corporation (The Harvard Monthly)
Sunday, February 20, 2005
The Revenge of Ellen Swallow (NYTimes)
Where’s the Road Beef? (NYTimes)
Monday, February 21, 2005
Harvard Chief Again to Face Angry Faculty Over Remarks (Washington Post)
Same Old Stereotyping (Washington Post)
How Summers Offended (Washington Post)
The Misguided Mathematics Of Equating Women and Men (Washington Post)
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Kim Gandy, President of NOW, debates Washington Post’s Sally Quinn over the Larry Summers comments. (CNN – Crossfire)
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Clueless in Academe (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Monday, February 28, 2005
Scientists Are Made, Not Born (New York Times)
Friday, March 4, 2005
Corporate Stereotyping is Everywhere (Berkeley Daily Planet)
The wrong conclusions (The Education Guardian, UK)
Sunday, March 6, 2005
A selection of books for Harvard’s president (Chicago Tribune)
Dr. Arnold’s Diet, Take a Steroid; Kick a Woman (Counter Punch)
Feet in mouth disease (GenomeBiology.com)
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Guest Commentary – A Conservative Woman Analyzes Larry Summers’ Remarks About Women (MichNews.com)
Thursday, March 10, 2005
…the limits of free speech versus Academic Freedom” (The Jerusalem Post)
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Controversial Remarks by Harvard President Continue to Spark Debate (The Turkish Weekly)