It's Not Just the Gender, Mr. President
A scholar
examines an aspect of Larry Summers' infamous NBER remarks other than the biology question: his suggestion that women were unwilling to work the 80-hour weeks required for success in math and science.
Her conclusion: "We need to get past the mythology of what makes creative people productive, past the American ethos that all can be ours if we just put enough hours into it, and do solid research on the topic. We don’t need occupational stereotypes to scare talented youth of either sex away from science, and I hope at some point prominent academicians such as the President of Harvard become good enough scholars to move past inaccurate clichés."
