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Harvard prez disparages women scientists?(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
In December the president of Newman University KS was accused of saying he didn't want to hire young women who may become pregnant.
In January the president of Harvard University MA was accused of suggesting that innate differences between women and men may explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers.
Speaking at an invitation-only conference on women and minorities in science and engineering sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Lawrence Summers also questioned how much a role discrimination plays in keeping female scientists and engineers from advancing at elite universities such as Harvard.
MIT biologist Dr. Nancy Hopkins, the Harvard graduate who in 1999 led a painstaking analysis of how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology systematically discriminated against women scientists, walked out of his speech. "It is so upsetting that all these brilliant young women (at Harvard) are being ...
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