Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math

Man_Holmes writes "Harvard president says that women lack natural ability in math and science and this explains why fewer women succeed in math and science. Lawrence H. Summers later said that he was discussing hypotheses based on scholarly work and that it did not necessarily represent his private views."

Comments

I already knew that

[koreaman]

Bah with the research and the studies, I could have told you that in one second.

Re job offers and "math is hard" barbie

[AndyChrist]

Whether the decline in job offers to women under his benevolent rule is wrong depends on how things were before it.

And who cares if the reasons are biological or social? In every school I ever went to, about 80 percent of the best math students were boys. If women chose to slack off in math, that's their damn choice. Isn't that what women are supposed to want? Women in general can't really come out looking good if you look at this issue. Because either it's their fault, or it's their genes' fault.

If I'm sounding a little mysoginistic it's because I don't think anyone should be humoring delusions...mass or individual.

Re:Today's Progressive Views

[notbob]

A woman seen not heard...
A woman that cooks and cleans...
A woman who's happy to marry and deal with u...
A woman who's barefoot, pregnant, and making dinner... ... is exactly what I'm looking for and is the real American dream... oh well back to the eroding family structure thats leading to the destabalization of the middle class ultimately leading to higher levels of crime and poverty that is our reality... f'in bitches... :)

Is it really a mystery?

[Spy der Mann]

I believe she was acting emotionally rather than logically

Which proves the point. It's not "good at math" vs "bad at math", but rather "emotional thinking" vs "logical thinking".

Men are naturally bad at sharing their feelings: they're colder and probably more rational, they take less into account their feelings when taking decisions.

Women are "naturally" more emotional than men - is that really a weakness? After all, which mother would you prefer? One who has great math skills, or one who knows how to make you feel better when that bully at school took your sandwich and beat you? Sharing and understanding your emotions is a virtue, not a defect.

Sure, women could need more "training" to develop their math skills, but really... what's the big deal? (After all they're humans, they can learn).
If I say that women are naturally prepared to become mothers, should all the ultra-progresist girls out there come and burn me at the stake for chauvinism? No, instead they should go after the guys who use these [facts?] as an excuse to consider women as inferior and abuse them.

My problem with ultra-feminists isn't that they want equal rights for women - but that they neglect their own feminity and innate motherhood to achieve it.

Re:I am a woman and innately different.

[geomon]

Women who are educated simply shouldn't have children at all. All children can be raised by poor people instead.

I guess you didn't have a father ?

Have you every *heard* of one?

I spent the formative years of my children's growth as the father and sole provider. My wife was working hard at the time earning her degree so that we BOTH would be able to provide for our children without living paycheck to paycheck.

Any family that takes the "father" out of the equation in child-rearing (and I mean providing more than just discipline) is a family on the road to failure.