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Was Larry Summers right about women in science?

JUN 08, 2010
Physics Today
New York Times : In his weekly Findings column, John Tierney discusses evidence that could support a contentious suggestion made by Larry Summers, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council, when he was president of Harvard University: At the highest levels of achievement in science and engineering, are men intrinsically better than women?
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