Blog Ten Assignment Instructions
Blog Ten
Assignment
This week, we read former Harvard University President, Lawrence Summer’s, position on women in the sciences. On Monday, you were apt to point out on your own where his logic for justifying the absence of women in the hard sciences was flawed. Since then, you read two very different criticisms of the assumptions present in Summer’s reasoning- one that clearly takes Summers to task on the insubstantiality of his immediate claims and the other that problematizes the reliance we, as a culture, have on supposed “natural� data. Using examples from Bublick or Fausto-Sterling, write your own response to Summers. You have the freedom to countenance his claims or deny them, but either way, you will want to make sure to reference at least one of the two readings.