Successful? How can you say that considering the public policies instituted after claims to scientific research-- i.e. The Violence Against Woman Act, affirmative action for woman applicants to engineering schools, Ritalin prescriptions for rowdy young boys etc.
Summers certainly got slapped down.
Feminism is dying because what it advocated has been instituted and the average person can see that it is disasterous -- with no help whatsover from academia.
...whose renewal Bush signed yesterday? It wasn't a result of scientific research.
affirmative action for woman applicants to engineering schools,
...wasn't a result of scientific research (scientific research says you should expect there to be more male engineers). And it's too bad Bush didn't make a principled decision to fight AA. He betrayed those of us in academia who've been fighting it for years. People like Daly and Wilson, like Kimura, like Pinker have been fighting feminists for years on sex differences. Daly and Wilson, and Pinker, have also both been reviled by creationists beause they're evolutionary psychologists. You're on the side of feminism, guy, not science.
Ritalin prescriptions for rowdy young boys etc.
...again, research would suggest that young boys tend to be rowdier, and schools should accommodate that. The policy is counter to science, not bolstered by science.