Tempest in Academia Story aired: Monday, February 21, 2005
Harvard President Lawrence Summers is in the middle of a firestorm about comments he made at an economic conference last month. Summers wondered whether innate abilities and a lack of desire to work the 80 hour week might explain the lack of women in the sciences.
Summers said he intended to be provocative. He also compared the lack of women in certain fields to the lack of Catholics in banking, white men in the NBA, and Jews in farming.
Guests:
Professor Everett Mendelsohn, who teaches the history of science at Harvard.
Harvey Ailvergate, attorney and co-founder and board member of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
