Ms. Scientist
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 12:56
in Psychology & Sociology
In 2005, the then-president of Harvard University said that men are better at math and science than women. (President Lawrence Summers' exact words were a bit more roundabout. While theorizing why women are underrepresented in those fields, he said "there is a different availability of aptitude at the high end.") Turns out Summers's attitude my be to blame, according to a new study from vocational psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. read more