Comments on: The Gendered Situation of Science & Math http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/the-gendered-situation-of-science-math/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:32:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sexism: The Worst Part Is Not Knowing « The Situationist http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/the-gendered-situation-of-science-math/#comment-13372 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:53:30 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/the-gendered-situation-of-science-math/#comment-13372 [...] review some related Situationist posts, see “Stereotype Threat and Performance,” “The Gendered Situation of Science and Math,” “Gender-Imbalanced Situation of Math, Science, and Engineering,” “Sex Differences in Math [...]

]]> By: Grue http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/the-gendered-situation-of-science-math/#comment-10875 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:33:32 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/the-gendered-situation-of-science-math/#comment-10875 I think Larry Summers is being vilified unfairly: “If Larry Summers’s comments had one appealing feature, it was the benefit of simplicity.” Do you have any idea what he actually said?

His remarks actually seem quite close to this article, because he mentioned several reasons (including physiological) and avoided taking a stand on which accounted for the differences.

It would be doubly ironic if someone returns the favor and unintelligently criticizes this blogs for the above “Role of Biology” section.

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