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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN

[for background, see UD below, 1/17/05]


'Nancy Hopkins, a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who once led an investigation of sex discrimination there that led to changes in hiring and promotion, walked out midway through [Harvard President Lawrence] Summers' remarks.

"When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill," Hopkins said.'

Posted at: 1/18/2005 02:16:00 PM