[BRIEF NOTE] Yale and Women

[rfmcdonald]

Harvard president Lawrence Summers' recent suggestion at an academic conference that innate differences in sex may explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers has provoked substantial. Here on Livejournal,brdgt has provided some coverage (1,2, 3), while charlemagne77's essay provides a very nice critical summary of the debate regarding Summers' claim, down to its final paragraph:

Taking the shorter version of the Baron-Cohen test online (a longer version may appear in his book, The Essential Difference), I discovered that I have a male brain, despite the fact that my incomprehension of maps, directions, abstract science and higher-level math--to say nothing of my lack of interest in design--all suggest a stereotypically female brain. Alas, I can't find it now.