Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce

By Lawrence H. Summers. 2005

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Messages about brilliance undermine women's interest in educational and professional opportunities (2018, unknown): “…10,000 level (i.e., the right tail of the distribu-“ ” tion) is often claimed to be a prerequisite for success in many presti gious careers in academia and beyond (e.g., ), so in-Summers, 2005 vestigating the e ects of environmental…”
Not by Productivity Alone: How Visibility and Specialization Contribute to Academic Earnings (2007, unknown): “How Visibility and Specialization”
How stereotypes impair women’s careers in science (2014, background): “In a controversial speech, Larry Summers (3), then President of Harvard University, advanced three hypotheses for this un-derrepresentation of women in science: different innate aptitudes among men and women at the high end of science-based fields; different career-related preferences among men and ”
Girls’ biology, boys’ physics: evidence from free‐choice science learning settings (2008, background): “A Harvard University president, for example, claimed that differences in innate aptitude more than different socialization were to blame for women’s failure to advance in high-end science careers (Summers 2005).”
Gender differences in mathematics achievement: Exploring the early grades and the extremes (2008, unknown): “E-mail address: penner@berkeley.edu (A.M. Penner). received much attention (e.g., Summers, 2005; National Academy of Sciences, 2006).”
Genetic Essentialism: On the Deceptive Determinism of DNA (2011, background): “Most famous of these, in 2005, Lawrence Summers (2005), then the president of Harvard University, suggested that a larger percentage of men have intrinsic mathematical aptitude than did women.”
Beyond nature and nurture: The influence of lay gender theories on self-stereotyping (2008, background): “Not long ago, Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, made a comment at an economic conference suggesting that innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women than men succeed in science and math careers (Summers, 2005; cf. Spelke, 2005).”
Eyeballs in the Fridge: Sources of early interest in science (2010, background): “Although Harvard’s former-President might think there is an innate difference between the scientific capabilities of women and men (Summers, 2005), the difference in numbers of practicing scientists is generally considered to be a result of women leaving science because they lose interest along the…”
Problems in the pipeline: Stereotype threat and women's achievement in high-level math courses ☆ ☆☆ (2008, background): “…and political charge of this debate was underscored recently when then-president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, suggested during a speech (Summers, 2005) that one of the primary reasons men vastly outnumber women at the upper rungs of science and mathematics professions is biological…”
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM): An Investigation of Their Implicit Gender Stereotypes and Stereotypes’ Connectedness to Math Performance (2012, background): “…valuable in contexts where a former Harvard University president stated that “in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude […] and those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization” (Summers 2005, para.”
How Development and Personality Influence Scientific Thought, Interest, and Achievement (2006, background): “I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them (Summers, 2005).”
Approaching math increases math=me and math=pleasant. (2008, background): “In a recent conference focusing on the representation of women in math related fields within academia, then president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers (2005), suggested two main causes for this gender gap.”