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Summers storm: a feminist show trial at Harvard.(Higher Education)(Lawrence Summers)

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| February 14, 2005 | Sommers, Christina Hoff | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IN the course of an informal, off-the-record talk before a group of academics, Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, unwittingly touched the third rail of university politics: He speculated that innate differences between the sexes might be one reason there are fewer women than men at the highest echelons of math and science. That gender is "socially constructed" by the patriarchy is a not-to-be-questioned tenet of campus ideology. And here was Summers daring to raise doubts about it.

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