ShaulaEvans, 4 months ago

@gretared Are you thinking of Lawrence Summers? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jan/18/educationsgendergap.genderissues

*I don't assume he's the only one. My silly little lady brain can't keep track of all the misogyny, either.

johnlogic, 4 months ago

@ShaulaEvans @gretared

Apparently in 2005 Harvard president Lawrence Summers remarked that women aren't good at math and science.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/science-jan-june05-summersremarks_2-22

johnlogic, 4 months ago

@ShaulaEvans @gretared

Could it be that the women who are good at math and science simply instead go to the little trade school at the other end of the road (MIT)?

Harvard's president Summers seems to have forgotten about Margaret Hamilton, Grace Hopper, and scores of other women who got America to the moon, and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)

CindyWeinstein, 4 months ago

@johnlogic @ShaulaEvans @gretared. #Ackman is going after #MIT's president now. He's not finished.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ackman-turns-focus-mit-president-sally-kornbluth-harvard-2024-1

gretared, 4 months ago

But I’m sure that leaders at Harvard would never engage in a full frontal attack on a black woman. 🤷‍♀️

Litzz11, 4 months ago

@gretared I believe that was our former Treasury Secretary, made famous for also dismissing Mark Zuckerberg's invention at Harvard as just some weird college kid thing, not worth suing over. But I'm just a dumb housewife, what do I know.

cdalten, 4 months ago

@gretared Math 55 at Harvard used to keep stats on the number of women that could make it through that class. And the last time I checked, no woman could complete that course.

edyoung, 4 months ago

@cdalten @gretared https://www.math.harvard.edu/demystifying-math-55/ quotes a woman who took it as a freshman and TA'ed second year, but I'm sure your memory is infallible, king