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Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 2005;115(4):790-790. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI24841.
Abstract
The recent uproar over comments about women in science made by Harvard University President Dr. Lawrence Summers has helped focus much needed attention on an issue of great importance. Whatever motivated Dr. Summers to make statements about the “different availability of aptitude at the high end” as a possible explanation for the lack of gender diversity in science and engineering, we should all thank him for putting the question of why there are not more women in science where it belongs — front and center.
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Andrew R. Marks
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