"Women in Sciences - issues of intrinsic aptitude ?!!! "

You guys are aware of the controversy with harvard president's speech,SPEECH IS BELOW ,
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Among his comments to a conference of economists last month, according to the transcript, he compared the relatively low number of women in the sciences to the numbers of Catholics in investment banking, whites in the National Basketball Association and Jews in farming. He theorized that a ``much higher fraction of married men'' than married women are willing to work 80-hour weeks in order to attain ``high-powered'' jobs. And he suggested he believed that, in the sciences and engineering, the innate aptitude of women was a factor behind their low numbers in the field.

``My best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon - by far - is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers' current desire for high power and high intensity; that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude; and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination,'' Summer said, according to the transcript. ``I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them,'' he added.

Though Lawrence Summers has apologized, some are still calling for his ouster.