By Pepper of the Daily Pepper
I don't understand why Lawrence Summers didn't get the boot from Harvard immediately after his statement that women and science don't mix, but he's finally leaving. Of course, it's going to take Harvard years to clean up the mess.
Alan Dershowitz has a different point of view in the Boston Globe. His title says it all: Coup Against Summers a Dubious Victory for the Politically Correct. So, it's a victory for the politically correct now? Instead of a victory for the women who bust their butt to get to college in the first place, only to be told they can't do math? Summers' statement about women wasn't empty words, spoken to his buddies in a Turkish spa. It was public, it was out in the open, and what he said could influence funding decisions - not just at Harvard, but at other schools - related to getting more women in science and hiring more female professors.
