Larry Summers, women in math and science, and a human-capital argument
In the last few weeks, there has been a firestorm surrounding Harvard
University President Larry Summers' off-the-cuff remarks suggesting innate
sex differences account for the low proportion of women in math and science
faculty at Harvard and other places. The most interesting response came
yesterday from the href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/print/hockfield-presidents-print.ht
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and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You'll identify a
human-capital argument in it.

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