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Mr. Summers,
I would not be surprised if women were going around throwing rocks at you. You made some very sexist statements about women, even though you tried to make them sound less harsh then the words themselves were. I expected you to be more open-minded since you yourself set an example for our society. Saying that men are more capable of succeeding in scientific fields than women and basing it on facts (such as your daughters playing with trucks and playing with them as dolls) is not very intelligent. Wouldn’t you agree? We could all draw conclusions such as that to make our hypothesis true. As Fausto-Sterling writes in �A Quesiton of Genius� about “hypothesis testing� we only use the data that will proof our hypothesis, so the results don’t really matter. Bublick tells us that her boys took stuffed dogs and put them is strollers and of course she could make different conclusions from it.
I clearly don’t think that men are smarter than girls in sciences, but you should have taken in consideration that society influences how much a woman can achieve in sciences. She is assigned many roles, such as being a mother, cleaning and being inside the house. Bublick was one of the only few female in her math class, but she dropped the course even though she have could succeeded. The society has established that women are only good being housewives but you go and worse the problems even more. Because you and I know that in our society there is a greater value placed on sciences than the other fields, so if women are not good at sciences than they are not smart, or as smart as men.