Express Yourself!

<p>In their recent editorial, &quot;<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/12/women_and_science_the_real_issue/">Women and science: the real issue</a>&quot; John Hennessey, computer scientist and president of Stanford University,  Susan Hockfield neuroscientist and president of MIT, and Shirley Tilghman molecular geneticist and president of Princeton University criticized <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/19/summerss_tortured_logic/">Lawrence Summers sexist remarks</a> at a conference titled, &quot;Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce: Women, Underrepresented Minorities and their S. and E. careers&quot;.</p><p>Given the long-history of discriminatory treatment of women scientists, male-oriented research paradigms as chronicled brilliantly in &quot;<a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2465/is_2_31/ai_71634867">The Gendered Atom</a>&quot;, I guess it's easier to blame the victim and be done with it.  </p>

This entry was posted on February 15, 2005 at 1:36 pm and is filed under Sexist pigs . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.