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To: neverdem



Lawrence H. Summers offered a theory to explain why there were not more women in the math and science fields and that was that there might be innate differences.

This woman is an idiot.


4 posted on 02/20/2005 3:36:49 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Lawrence H. Summers offered a theory to explain why there were not more women in the math and science fields and that was that there might be innate differences. This woman is an idiot.

Yup. She didn't even accurately describe what Summers claimed.

And the point being made isn't to keep women out of these fields but to consider the value of affirmative action recruitment to achieve a gender balance.

And what should also be considered is if there are innate differences, it is a pretty rotten trick to push a young girl, whose true interest is art or literature or having a family family into hard science and advanced math.

And there is a cost to society in that young boys who might have an innate talent might pursue it correctly figuring the discrimination they face isn't worth it.

573 posted on 02/21/2005 7:44:40 AM PST by Tribune7
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