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Sunday, January 30, 2005  

Women in Science and Mathematics

1) Yahoo News: Harvard President Criticized for Remarks
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_re_us/harvard_president&e=2&ncid=

2) Harvard University: Letter from President Summers on Women and Science
http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/womensci.html

3) Social Forces: Gender Differences in Mathematical Trajectories
http://fp.arizona.edu/soc/socforcegendermath.pdf

4) Society of Women Engineers: To the Editor
http://www.swe.org/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=swe_001267&ssSourceNodeId=20

5) Engineers Week: MentorNet Founder Responds to Harvard University President’s Comments on Women in Science
http://www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/mentornet.shtml

6) Nelson Diversity Surveys
http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/faculty/djn/diversity/top50.html

7) Institute for Mathematics and its Applications: Career Options for Women in Mathematics
http://www.ima.umn.edu/cwims/abstracts/2-4abstract.html

Recent comments by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers, regarding women and mathematics have spurred numerous articles and responses. The first article from Yahoo News (1) gives an overview of the event, his comments, and some reactions. The comment most at issue is whether or not innate sex differences might leave women less capable of succeeding at the most advanced mathematics. The second website (2) offers Summers’ apology and clarifies his comments. The third article (3), although from 2001, reviews some previous research on gender differences in mathematics and discusses findings from a study that, based on longitudinal data, found that “gender differences are slight, late developing, and subject-specific.” This response from the Society of Women Engineers (4) offers some further insight on why there are fewer women than men in mathematics and science careers. This next website from Engineers Week (5) invites others to join the discussion forum on this issue. This website (7) posts the Nelson Diversity Survey, which gives 2005 statistics for diversity in science and engineering facilities at research universities, while the next website looks to the future (6) and offers some short abstracts describing some prospective Career Options for Women in Mathematics. [Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu]

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