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Dear Lawrence Summers,
I am writing you in response to your speech that you had dealing with the issue of women and their lack of education when it comes to the science fields. You feel like women don’t have what it takes to be in these fields of work, but I feel like if the men on the hierarchy giving out these jobs gave the women applying a chance then they would succeed beyond measure. You did not use any resources for your speech and in a way you contradicted yourself by saying I really don’t mean this. I know that you are the president of the prestigious Harvard University and was most likely trying not to insult the women that attend or may have heard this speech but if you would have used some kind of evidence it may have been a bit more believable than outrageous. In a reading I am doing in my gender studies class it says that girls are pushed toward the science fields at a young age (Fausto-Sterling). You seemed to be a bit unsure about what you really want to say, I know that your main goal is to present the case that men are more intelligent than women but if this was true and there was some kind of evidence to guide it then it may not have been such a controversy around the argument. In another reading it states that “boys and girls learning together in the same classroom did not receive the same instruction,� (Fausto-Sterling). This to me means that the boys in the class get more instruction for the simple fact the girls are already assumed to know the work, so they get less help. I don’t know what your angle is and if you still believe your speech to be true but I don’t believe it to be true, and if it was true then , it’s no longer true. With Bush’s No Child Left Behind in action then I think that this should not be a debate but an open door of helping everyone achieve equal standards. Please take this into consideration.
Thank you
Violet Rose
Sorry this is late, I went to the Unity Dinner at Coffman and I thought it would be over a long time ago. Sorry.