Summers News Media Archive of Lawrence Summers**

Media Coverage: May 2005

Boston Globe

"Summers's critics are wary, but more hopeful" – 5/22/2005
"Harvard's evolution" – 5/18/2005
"Summers sets $50m women's initiative" – 5/17/2005
"Harvard to spend $50 million on diversity" (Reuters) – 5/17/2005
"Harvard to commit $50M to women programs" (AP) – 5/17/2005
"Experts urge Congress to help women pursue science careers" (AP) – 5/11/2005
"A bumper crop of top women scientists" – 5/10/2005
"In Maine, a totally green graduation (Harvard Reaches Out)" – 5/8/2005
"The ABCs of character" – 5/5/2005
"A woman's place in the lab: Harvard studies efforts to boost women faculty at U-Wisconsin" – 5/1/2005
"Science Friction" – 5/1/2005

Chronicle of Higher Education

"Harvard Committees Suggest Steps to Help Women" – Volume 51, Issue 38, (5/27/2005): A8 (Subscription required for full text - available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Harvard Panels Suggest Steps for Improving the Lot of Female Professors; Some Proposals Already Have Been Endorsed" – 5/17/2005(Subscription required for full text – available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Chickens: the Ward Churchill and Larry Summers Story" – Volume 51, Issue 36, (5/13/2005): B9 (Subscription required for full text – available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"The Trustees' Tipping Point" – Volume 51, Issue 35, (5/6/2005): A27 (Subscription required for full text – available in Proquest Research Library after one month)

Media Coverage: April 2005

Boston Globe

"Another Summers speech questioned" – 4/21/2005
"Summers releases transcript in another flap over remarks" (AP) – 4/20/2005
"Harvard's Gates to step down as department head" – 4/16/2005
"Gates to step down as African American Studies chairman; will remain at Harvard" (AP) – 4/16/2005
"Gates to step down from Harvard post" (AP) – 4/16/2005
"Summers displays new understanding of women's careers" – 4/8/2005
"Harvard loses top political scientist" – 4/6/2005
"Black scholar to leave Harvard and return to University of Chicago" (AP) – 4/6/2005
"Prominent black scholar to leave Harvard" (AP) – 4/6/2005
"Authors dive into the gender debate" –4/3/2005
"Yo-Yo Ma brings music to Harvard again": Post Script –4/3/2005

Chronicle of Higher Education

"Former General Electric Chief Defends Harvard President's Remarks" – Volume 51, Issue 33, (4/22/2005): A30 (Subscription required for full text – available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
Kenneth A. Show "A Vote for Confidence in College Presidents" – The Chronicle Review, 51; 31 (4/8/2005): B13. (Subscription required for full text – available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
Leon Fink "The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Harvard" –The Chronicle Review, 51; 30 (4/1/2005): B5. (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)

Harvard Crimson

"Admissions Calls Out to Women in Science" – 4/29/2005
"Profs Spar on 'Innate Differences'" – 4/25/2005
"Academic Chiefs Discuss Diversity" – 4/22/2005
"My School, My Thesis" – 4/21/2005
"Summers: Women in Science" – 4/8/2005
"Profs Push for Early Meeting Finish" – 4/13/2005

New York Times

"Where Popular Sciences Is Called Women's Work" – 4/27/2005
"Harvard Professor to Step Down as Chairman of Black Studies" – 4/17/2005
Letter to the Editor: "The Harvard Mess" – 4/17/2005
"For Women in Sciences, Slow Progress in Academia" – 4/15/2005
"Theorist Drawn Into Debate 'That Will Not Go Away'" – 4/12/2005
"Boy Problems" –4/3/2005

Washington Post

"These Leaders Get the Respect They Deserve" – 4/17/2005
"The Man in The Ivory Tower" – 4/15/2005

Other Media Coverage

Cahill, L. (2005). "His Brain, Her Brain" – 4/25/2005 Scientific American
Bradt, S. (2005). "Requisites for success: Stamina, Boundary-setting." Harvard University Gazette – 4/21/2005.
Byko, M. (2005). "Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Science and Engineering." Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (JOM), 57(4)
Anonymous (2005). "Evelynn Hammonds of Harvard Named To Lead Its Female Faculty Task Force." Jet, 107(10) p. 7, 2pgs.
MSNBC: "Women explore the frontiers of physics: Einstein's intellectual heiresses add to his legacy" by Alan Boyle April 18, 2005

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Media Coverage: March 2005

Boston Globe

"In Harvard Square, a sign and a tempest at a tea shop" –3/27/2005
Editorial: "Scientific breakthrough" –3/27/2005
"Summers madness" –3/25/2005
"Worthy opponent" –3/23/2005
"Summers wins support in student vote" –3/23/2005
"Harvard graduate students weigh in on Summers controversy" (AP) –3/23/2005
"A top female dean set to leave Harvard" –3/22/2005
"Dissing the distaff pundits" –3/20/2005
"Summers gets vote of no confidence" –3/16/2005
"Faculty fires warning at Harvard's Summers"(AP) –3/16/2005
"Harvard Chief Loses Faculty Confidence Vote" (Reuters) –3/16/2005
"Harvard leader loses no-confidence vote" (AP) –3/15/2005
"Harvard passes no confidence vote in Summers" (AP) –3/15/2005
"Another clash for Summers" –3/15/2005
"On California Campus, Strength in Numbers" –3/14/2005
"Summers' foes see a CEO approach" – 3/12/2005
"Marginal Intentions" –3/6/2005
"Girls see science as their solution" – 3/6/2005
Letter to the Editor, "Careers based on talents, tastes" –3/6/2005
Letter to the Editor, "Help all reach their potential" –3/3/2005
"Grading Larry Summers" –3/2/2005
"Summers should stop apologizing" –3/1/2005

Chronicle of Higher Education

"Board Backs Harvard Chief After a Faculty Thumbs Down" –Volume 51, Issue 29, (3/25/2005): A1 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"We Must Make the Academic Workplace More Humane and Equitable" –The Chronicle Review, 51; 28 (3/18/2005): B6. (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Harvard Faculty Votes No Confidence in the University's President" – 3/16/2005
Letters to the Editor: "Liberal-Arts Colleges and Female Scientists" –Volume 50, Issue 26, (3/5/2005): B17 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Primed for Numbers –Women and Science: The Debate Goes On" – Volume 51, Issue 26, (3/4/2005): A1 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Where's Larry?" –Women and Science: The Debate Goes On" –Volume 51, Issue 26, (3/4/2005): A1 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Vexing Stereotypes –Women and Science: The Debate Goes On" –Volume 51, Issue 26, (3/4/2005): A13 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Why Chinese Students Score High in Math –Women and Science: The Debate Goes On" –Volume 51, Issue 26, (3/4/2005): A16 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
Colloquy: Join a live, online discussion with David C. Geary, a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri at Columbia, about research suggesting that there are innate differences between the sexes that explain the predominance of men in mathematics, on Wednesday, March 2, at 2 p.m., U.S. Eastern time.

Harvard Crimson

"Our Lack of Confidence" –3/25/2005
"Grad Students Vote Confidence in Summers" –3/23/2005
"Panel Addresses Innate Differences" –3/22/2005
"Grad Students Vote Against Lack of Confidence Motion" –3/22/2005
"Summers, The Faculty, And Harvard's Image" –3/21/2005
"Grad Students Vote On Summers" –3/21/2005
"Lack of Confidence" – 3/16/2005
"Diversity for the Corporation" –3/16/2005
"Summers Fails Faculty Confidence Vote" –3/15/2005
"News Analysis: After Loeb Matinee, Summers Left in Awkward Limbo" – 3/16/2005
"Summers Garners Applause at Mather" –3/16/2005
"CASH Asks Summers to Resign" – 3/16/2005
"Summers' Silver Lining" –3/16/2005
"White Guys Have All the Fun" – 3/16/2005
"Workers Protest Sexism" –3/11/2005
"Summers To Face No Confidence Vote" –3/9/2005
"HSPH Urges Support of Women" –3/9/2005
"Press Secretary for Summers to Leave" –3/8/2005
"Summers Fields Tough Questions From Parents" –3/7/2005
"Women Faculty Address Challenges" –3/7/2005
Lawrence Summers, "Faculty Try Hard to Make Hiring Process Work Right" –3/7/2005
"Study: Time Off Sets Women Back" –3/7/2005
"HSPH Faculty Meet Over Summers" – 3/4/2005
"Professors, Kirby, Summers Meet Informally" –3/4/2005
"Motion Filed to Censure Summers" -3/3/2005
"How Larry Got His Rep" –3/3/2005
"WISHR (Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe) Proposes Resources For Women" –3/1/2005
"Design School Panel Laments Low Gender Diversity" –3/1/2005
"Profs, Summers To Meet Thursday" –3/1/2005

Los Angeles Times

"THE NATION; Faculty Group Votes Lack of Confidence in Harvard Chief; Lawrence Summers' leadership style and comments about women in science spur rebuke" –3/16/2005
Commentary: "The Feminine Technique" –3/15/2005

New York Times

"Researchers Toil With Genes on the Fringe of a Cure" –3/22/2005
"The Tempest in the Ivory Tower" – 3/17/2005
"Professors, in Close Vote, Censure Harvard Leader" – 3/16/2005
"Harvard Faculty Voting Tuesday on Confidence in President" –3/15/2005
"Summers Faces Possible No-Confidence Vote"(AP) –3/15/2005
"Dish It Out, Ladies" –3/13/2005
"Goodbye Doesn't Need to Mean Forever" – 3/13/2005
Letter to the Editor: Women in Academia – 3/8/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
Letters to the Editor: Women in the Sciences: The Paths They Took (3 Letters) – 3/7/2005
"Gender Politicis is Local, Too" – 3/6/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
"Little Advance Is Seen in Ivies' Hiring of Minorities and Women" – 3/1/2005
Letters to the Editor: "What It Takes to Lead at Harvard (6 Letters)" – 3/1/2005

Time Magazine

The Math Myth – 3/7/2005
"Who Says a Woman Can't Be Einstein" – 3/7/2005
"Bad Idea. You'll Flunk Out" –3/7/2005
"Steering Girls into Science" – 3/7/2005
"The Iceland Exception: A Land Where Girls Rule in Math" – 3/7/2005

Other Media Coverage

"Was summers even thinking about discrimination and social bias?" –The Dallas Morning News –4/2/2005
"Improved Formula: In England, Girls Are Closing Gap With Boys in Math; Making Class Interactive Has Side Effect: Females Thrive; Echoes of Harvard Debate; What It Means to Be 'Innate'" –Wall Street Journal –3/30/2005
"Gender, Attitude, Aptitude and UW" –Wisconsin State Journal –3/27/05
"Dear Dr. Summers... –In a letter, sixth-grade girls take Harvard president to task for negative comments about women in science and math" –King County Journal (WA) –3/27/2005
"I'm Wired for Science" –Parade Magazine –3/27/2005
Commentary: "Men, women are not the same -- but are equals" –The Miami Herald –3/21/2005
"New call for Harvard chief to quit over remarks on women" –The Independent (London) –3/17/2005
CBS News, Harvard Debate, January 2005 (Links to CBS Sunday Morning webpage, "Intellectual Gender Gap." This page links to the transcript of Elizbeth Kaledin's 3/13/2005 coverage and to this earlier coverage of L. Summer's remarks.)
CBS News Sunday Morning: Elizabeth Kaledin, "No Kidding!" – reports on research and stereotypes of women in science, brain differences, Barnard College, 3/13/2005. (Digital link to television program on Barnard College's website. Transcript available from CBS.)
"Lawrence of Absurdia" – March 2005
"Harvard Coup: The faculty attack on Summers" –The New Republic –3/7/2005 (Available for UW users on Academic Search Elite)
Evelynn Hammonds of Harvard Named to Lead its Female Faculty Task Force –Jet –3/7/2005 (Available from Proquest Research Library)

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Media Coverage: February 2005

Boston Globe

"Nature vs. nurture divides academia: Some see merit in saying biology may have role in gender inequities" –2/28/2005
"Summers Spoke the Truth" –2/28/2005
Letter to the Editor: "Please, enough of Harvard!" –2/28/2005
"Shades of crimson: Harvard University's flaws, and its future, are debated in two thought-provoking works" – 2/27/2005
Letter to the Editor: "What's the Fuss all about?" – 2.27.2005
"Professors Fear Summers Debate Will Hurt Harvard; Faculty of Both Sides Cite Tense Arguments" – 2/26/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
"Professor's Motion Seeks to Air Dissent on Summers" – 2/25/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
"Summers's Teachable Moment" – 2/24/2005
"Summers Vows New Tone with Faculty: Pledges to Temper His Words, Actions" – 2/23/2005
"Harvard Chief Pledges to Change Tone, Listen More" (Reuters) – 2/23/2005
"Harvard Faculty Meet with University Chief "(AP) – 2/23/2005
"Harvard President Responds to Critics, Supporters" (AP) – 2/23/2005
Letter to the Editor: "Harvard President Under Fire" – 2/23/2005
Letter to the Editor: "Harvard Musn't Stifle Free Speech" – 2/23/2005
"Harvard Faculty to Meet About Summers" – 2/22/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
"Poll on Summers Finds Faculty Mixed" – 2/22/2005
"Yale Scientists Call on President to Address Remarks" – 2/21/2005
"Harvard Business School Dean on Lessons Learned" –2/20/2005
"Harvard Hullabaloo: The Wild Ride of Larry Summers" –2/20/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
Letter to the Editor: "Summers Gave Us Support, Counsel" –2/20/2005
Editorial: "Summers Releases Transcript of Remarks on Women in Science" – 2/19/2005
"Harvard May Face Poaching of Staff" –2/19/2005
Letter to the Editor: "Turn Summers' Error into Good" – 2/19/2005
"Support for Summers" –2/19/2005
"Summers Releases Debated Transcript" –2/18/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
"Seeing Differences as 'Unfortunate Truth'" –3/18/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
"Some Professors Back Harvard's Summers" –2/17/2005
"Transcript shows Harvard president arguing intrinsic differences between genders play a role in science careers" (AP)- 2/17/2005
"Harvard Chief Argued Over Gender Issues" (AP) –2/17/2005
"Yale Students to Protest Treatment of Women" (AP) –2/17/2005
"Summers Given a Scolding, Faculty Say" –2/16/2005
"Harvard President Confronted Over Remark"(AP) –2/16/2005
"Harvard Professors Blast Summers Over Remark on Women" (AP) –2/16/2005
"Women and Science: The Real Issue" –2/12/2005
"3 University Chiefs Chide Summers on Remarks" –2/12/2005
"Critics See Power Grab in Harvard Hiring Plan" –2/11/2005
"Harvard Aims to Spur Advancement of Women" – 2/4/2005
"Female Astronomers Connected the Dots" –2/1/2005

Chronicle of Higher Education

Stanley Fish "Clueless in Academe" – 2/23/2005 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Harvard's President Holds an Amicable Meeting With His Faculty" –2/23/2005 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Gender Gap on Physics Faculties Stems From Choice of Major, Not Bias in Hiring, Report Says" –2/23/2005 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
"Mr. Summers's Views Fuel Bias, Peers Say" –2/25/2005
"Harvard President Issues Transcript of Controversial Remarks About Women in Science and Mathematics" – 2/18/2005 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
Harvard Creates 2 Panels to Advance Female Professors (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)
Letters to the Editor: Different Opinions on Gender Differences –2/18/2005
"Harvard U. President's Remarks About Women and Science Draw More Criticism — This Time, From Peers" –2/14/2005 (Available FREE – Subscription not required)
"The Long Winter of Mr. Summers" –2/11/2005
"Can Harvard Ever Play a Positive Role for Women in Higher Education?" Vol. 51, No.22 (2/4/2005): B14 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library after one month)

Harvard Crimson

"Two Senior Professors Consider Leaving" –2/25/2005
"Summers Said He Never Considered Stepping Down" –2/25/2005
"What If He Weren't President?" –2/24/2005
"Alumni Keep Eye on Summers" –2/24/2005
"Faculty Council Looks to Corporation" – 2/24/2005
"Summers Meets With Divided Faculty" –2/23/2005
"Playing the Diplomat, Summers Looks to a Still-Uncertain Future" –2/23/2005
"Students Protest at Faculty Meeting" –2/23/2004
"Crimson Poll Finds Professors at FAS Deeply Divided on Embattled Leader" –2/22/2005
"Summers, Faculty Brace for Meeting" – 2/22/2005
"Some Students Petition for Summers, But Others Rally Against Him Today" – 2/22/2005
"Faculty's Influence Doubted" –2/22/2005
"Kirby Remains Silent on Summers" –2/22/2005
"Reflections of a Department Chair" –2/22/2005
Letter to the Editor: "Summers Was Open To Discussion in Frosh Seminar" – 2/21/2005
"Professors Welcome Release, but Critics Say That Concerns Over Leadership Remain" -2/18/2005
"Students Clash Over Summers' Remarks" -2/18/2005
"Graduate Faculty Weigh In" –2/18/2005
"News Analysis: Some Say Digressive Remarks from January Conference ‘Taken Out of Context’" –2/18/2005
"Summers Releases Transcript of Remarks on Women in Science" –2/17/2005
"Tense Past Jeopardizes Summers’ Future" –2/17/2005
"Secretive Corporation Holds Final Key to President’s Fate" –2/17/2005
"Formal Procedure May Hinder Profs’ Attempts To Call Vote Of Confidence" – 2/17/2005
Opinion: "A Time for Repentance" –2/17/2005
Opinion: "Staff Dissent: Mobbing Summers" –2/17/2005
"Summers Faces Crises of Confidence" -2/16/2005
"News Analysis: Focus Widens in Attack on President" –2/16/2005
"Chief Calls for 'Family-Friendly' Tenure Rules" –2/14/2005
"Suggestion that Summers Has Asberger's is Unreasonable" – 2/14/2005
Opinion: "Its Simple as 1,2, 3" -2/11/2005
Opinion: "Leadership, Larry, and the Left" –2/8/2005
Opinion: "A Neglected Department" [Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality] –2/8/2005
"Plan Calls for Task Forces to Tackle Women's Issues" –2/4/2005
"Scholars Study Female Careers"[Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz] –2/4/2005
"Science Museum Welcomes Women" – 2/2/2005
"New Book Blasts Summers' Tenure" –2/2/2005

New York Times

"The Lawrence Summers Mess: Harvard Enters the Internet Age" –2/28/2005
"Scientists Are Made, Not Born" –2/28/2005
"Summers' Remarks Supported by Some Experts"(AP) –2/28/2005
"The Battle Behind the Battle at Harvard" – 2/27/2005
"Amid Uproar, Harvard President Ponders His Style" –2/26/2005
"Harvard President Vows to Temper His Style with Respect" – 2/23/2005
"Yale Women Demand Stand on Gender Controversy" –2/22/2005
"Women in Physics Match Men in Success" –2/22/2005
Editorial: "The Revenge of Ellen Swallow" –2/20/2005
"Rift Deepens as Professors at Harvard See Remarks" –2/19/2005
Letters to the Editor(5): "Candor and Anger at Harvard" – 2/19/2005
"Fury Lingers as Harvard Chief Gives Details of Talk on Women" – 2/18/2005
"Summers Must Show He Can Lead at Harvard" (AP) –2/18/2005
Book Review: "Amid the Firestorm, a Portrait of Harvard" –2/17/2005 (Review of Richard Bradley, Harvard Rules)
"Professors at Harvard Confront Its President" –2/16/2005
"More Academic Backlash for Harvard Chief" –2/12/2005
Welcoming Women in Science: Letters to the Editor (scroll down past letters on teaching evolution) –2/8/2005
"Opening Doors for Women in Computing" –2/7/2005; Also available on CNET News.com
"Smart Kids Can Flourish if Parents Are Involved" (Letter) -2/7/2005
"For Some Girls, the Problem With Math s that They're Good at It" – 2/1/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
"The Girls are Smart, Real Smart" –2/1/2005

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Are pay-gaps 'intrinsic' too? –2/20/2005
"Expect the Best: Girls can excel at math and science with the right encouragement" –2/17/2005
"Bringing out their best" – Grace Ann Geibel –2/16/2005
The New Republic
"Body of Evidence: Madame Curie's and L. Summer's Views on the Gender Gap" –2/14/2005 (Available for UW users on Academic Search Elite)

The Washington Post

"Harvard is Split on Summers" –2/23/2005
"Missing the Point at Harvard" –2/23/2005
"Same Old Stereotyping" –2/22/2005
"Harvard Chief Again to Face Angry Faculty" –2/22/2005
"How Summers Offended" – 2/21/2005
"The Misguided Mathematics Of Equating Women and Men" –2/19/2005
Editorial: "Harvard's Free Mind" –2/19/2005
"Harvard Officials Stand By Summers" –2/18/2005
"Summers is Attacked Anew" –2/16/2005
Letters to the Editor: "Women in Science" –2/15/2005
"Harvard Chief's Views Rejected by Peers" –2/13/2005
"Diminished By Discrimination We Scarcely See" – Meg Urry –2/6/2005
"Decoding Why Few Girls Choose Science, Math" –2/1/2005

Other Media Coverage

Pittsburg Post-Gazette – "The chemistry for science" –2/28/2005
Time Magazine – "What Larry Summers Got Right" –2/28/2005
Newsweek – "Bully in the Pulpit" – 2/28/2005
PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer: Women and Science – Background Report by Betty Ann Browser – 2/22/2005
PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer: Women and Science – Three Professors discuss Summer's comments and women's role in science; Gwen Iffel with Virginia Valian, Sandra Witelson, and Kim Shaumann on February 22, 2008
Science Magazine – Letter to the Editor: Gender Differences and Performance in Science –2/14/2005
Wisconsin State Journal – Letters to the Editor: "Gender Bias Learned" –2/17/3005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
Wisconsin State Journal –"Gender Matters, (or Does It?)" –2/17/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
Science Magazine – Harvard Creates New Task Forces on Women in Science –2/11/2005
"When Are You Guys Going to Get It?" – Deborah Blum, Los Angelos Times –2/13/2005
Playing by Boy Rules, Girl Rules –The Philadelphia Enquirer –2/13/2005
"The Evidence Piles Up: Men and Women Are Indeed Different" –John Leo, Yahoo News - 2/6/2005 (Published 2/7/2005 in the Wisconsin State Journal)
"Women Advancing But Their Pay Isn't" – Baltimore Sun –2/6/2005
Guest Viewpoint: "Gender Debate Ignores Real Issues" – The Register Guard (Eugene, Oregon) –2/6/2005
"Stanford Researchers: Women Can Hold Their Own in Sciences, Math" –Kansas City Star - 2/4/2005
"Outcry Prompts Harvard President to Address Women's Advancement in Science" - Ms. Magazine Online –2/4/2005
WHDH TV – New England News: "Harvard President Outlines Mission For Two Committees on Women" – 2/4/2005
The Nation – Summers of Our Discontent –2/3/2005
Gender Doesn't Determine Success in Science and Math –Dick Startz, University of Washington Economist, HeraldNet - 2/2/2005
"On the Status of the Sexes" – USA Today -2/2/2005

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Media Coverage: January 2005

Boston Globe

"A Day of Science, Sharing" –1/31/2005
Letter to the Editor: Column reinforces a victim culture – 1/30/2005
Letter to the Editor: Women may find rewards lacking –1/30/2005
Op-Ed: Boys in the Boardroom –David D'Allesandro –1/28/2005
"What Summers Should Ask" –1/26/2005
"Do Genes Play a Role in Science Gender Gap" –1/25/2005
Letter to the Editor: Women Come Learn in Minnesota – 1/25/2005
"Gender Gap Separates Harvard, Other Top Schools" –1/24/2005
"Some Say Summers is Supposed to Heat Things Up" –1/23/2005
Letter to the Editor: My Daughter, the Molecular Biologist –1/23/2005
Op-Ed: Summers is Right –Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz –1/23/2005
Op-Ed: Can Women Have It All? –Ellen Goodman –1/23/2005
"Solving for XX: What science can (and can't) tell Larry Summers about the difference between men and women" –Deborah Blum –1/23/2005
"Chill Sets in at Harvard" – 1/21/2005
"Summers, Harvard Faculty Meet" –1/21/2005
"Summers Calls for Initiative on Women" –1/21/2005
"Careless About Words" –1/21/2005
"Summers Contrite About Remarks" –1/20/2005
Harvard Chief Says His Remarks on Women Were Wrong –1/20/2005
Letter to the Editor: Social Cues, Not Genes, Are the Cause -1/20/2005
Letter to the Editor: We Need Open Discussion –1/20/2005
"Summers' Tortured Logic" –1/19/2005
"Summers' Sense" –1/19/2005
"Harvard Women's Group Rips Summers" –1/19/2005
"Harvard President Criticized for his remarks" (AP) –1/18/2005
"Harvard President Sparks Uproar at conference for his comments on women" (AP) –1/17/2005
"Summers' Remarks on Women Draw Fire" –1/17/2005

Chicago Tribune

Editorial –"Men Losing their Pedestal Status" –1/26/2005
Editorial –"Science Unhinged: Hard Science vs. Sloppy Thinking" – 1/25/2005
Editorial –"Its OK to Declare that Women are From Venus" –1/25/2005
"Lawrence Summers, Provocateur" –1/23/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
Op-Ed: Sex Ed at Harvard -1/23/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
Op-Ed: Different but (Probably) Equal –Olivia Judson –1/23/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
President of Harvard Tells Women's Panel He's Sorry" –1/21/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
Women, Science and Harvard (6 Letters) –1/21/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library: Letter 1, Letter 2, Letter 3, Letter 4, Letter 5, Letter 6
"Harvard President Apologizes Again for Remarks on Gender" –1/20/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
"No Break in the Storm over Harvard President's Words" –1/19/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
"Harvard Chief Defends his Talk on Women" – 1/18/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library

Chronicle of Higher Education

"Harvard's President Wonders Aloud About Women in Science and Math" –Vol . 51, No. 21 (1/28/2005): A12 (Available FREE –Subscription not required)
Letters to the Editor: "Gender Inequality in Academe" –Volume 51, Issue 20, (1/21/2005): A47 (Subscription required for full text –available in Proquest Research Library)
"Female Professors Assail Remarks by Harvard's President, Who Says It's All a Misunderstanding" –1/19/2005 (Subscription required for full text)

Harvard Crimson

"Even Without Exams, Summers Stresses in January" – 1/24/2005

"Uncomfortably, Hopkins Basks in Media Glow" –1/24/2005

"Faust to Lead New Initiative" – 1/24/2005

"Hat in Hand, Summers Tries to Stem Fallout" -1/21/2005

"Summers: 'I Made a Big Mistake'" – 1/21/2005

"Summers: 'I Was Wrong'" –1/20/2005

"Summers Draws Fire for Remarks on Women" -1/19/2005

"Sociologist Cited by Summers Calls His Talk 'Uninformed'" –1/19/2005

"Student Leaders React to Summers Flap" -1/19/2005

"Psychologists Weigh in on Summers' Comments" –1/19/2005

"Psychoanalysis Q-and-A: Steven Pinker" –1/19/2005

"Psychoanalysis Q-and-A: Elizabeth S. Spelke '71" – 1/19/2005

"Summers' Comments on Women and Science Draw Ire" –1/17/2005

New York Times

Envisioning a Career Path With Pit Stops – 1/30/2005
Letters to the Editor (4): Women in Science: Voices in the Debate –1/28/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library: Letter 1, Letter 2, Letter 3, Letter 4
Letter to the Editor: Harvard Leader's Style –1/27/2005
"At Harvard, the Bigger Concern of the Faculty is President's Management Style" –1/26/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library
"Grey Matter and the Sexes: A Grey Area Scientifically" –1/24/2005; Available online –Proquest Research Library

The Washington Post

"Raise Your Hand If You're A Woman in Science" –Virginia Valian –1/30/2005
"Playing to Stereotype" –1/30/2005
Letters to the Editor: Women and Science: Good Questions or Shameful Bias? –1/29/2005
"Harvard Hysterics" –George Will – 1/27/2005
"Sanctioned Silences" –Robert J. Samuelson –1/26/2005
"Summers Storm" –Ruth Marcus –1/22/2005
"Harvard Chief's Comments on Women Assailed –1/19/2005

Newsweek

"Sex and Science" –1/31/2005 issue
"The Guy of the Storm" –1/31/2005 issue
"Different or Not" – 1/21/2005

Other Media Coverage

M.R.C. Greenwood, Provost and Senior Vice President, University of California "Gender isn't in the Science Equation," San Jose Mercury News - 1/31/2005
Science Magazine – Summers's Comments Draw Attention to Gender, Racial Gaps –1/28/2005
"Truth About Math, Science, and Women" –USA Today- 1/27/2005
"Are Women Not Wired for Science," Palm Beach Post –1/24/2005; Includes interviews with signers of WEPAN/AWIS Response
"Encouragement, not gender, key to success in science," San Francisco Chronicle - 1/28/2005
"Why the Harvard president's tactless social science was a bad idea," Slate: The Highbrow –1/28/2005
Talk of the Nation, Science Friday – "Women in Science" – with Nancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Marianne Bronner-Fraser, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology; Meg Urry, Professor of Physics and Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics; 1/28/2005
"A Look at Research on Gender and Science" – David Kestenbaum – 1/28/2005
Diane Rehm Show – "Women in Science and Math" – Panel discussion with Susan Ganter, Executive director, AWIS; Kimberlee Shauman, Sociology, University of California, Davis; Virginia Valian, Psychology and Linguistics, Hunter College; 1/27/2005
"Women Can Do Science, If Encouraged" –The Philadelphia Enquirer –1/23/2005
News Analysis, "'Summer's Storm' Overshadows a Worthy Topic" – Daniel Schorr – 1/23/2005
Wall Street Journal – "Gender Fender-Bender" –1/21/2005 (Available from Proquest Newspapers)
Time Magazine – "Harvard's Crimson Face" –1/21/2005
(AP) "Days after female scholars' criticism, Harvard president calls for opportunities for women" –1/22/2005
(AP) "Harvard Chief Sorry for Remark on Women" –1/21/2005
(AScribe) "Women-in-Science Flap Misses Important Point, Duke Professor Says" -1/20/2005
(AP) "Harvard president apologizes for women in science remarks, but some worry apology will stifle debate" –1/20.2005
(Scripps Howard) "Hell to pay at Harvard" –1/20/2005
(AP) "Faculty committee says Harvard chief's remarks on women could hurt recruiting of scholars" –1/19/2005
(AP) "Summers apologizes for 'unintended signal' discouraging girls in science" –1/19/2005
All Things Considered – "Could Summers Have a Point about Women in Science?" – NPR's Michele Norris and Robert Siegel with Drew Weston, Psychology, Emory University, 1/19/2005
Day to Day – "The Gender Gap in Math and Science Careers" – NPR's Madeline Brand talks with Nicole Weekes, Prof. Psychology and NeuroScience, Pomona College, 1/19/2005
(Newhouse) "Commentary: Could It Be That Men and Women Are ... Different?" -1/18/2005
(UPI) "Harvard chief on defensive with women" –1/18/2005

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