The Speech Given by Former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers

question 28

Multiple Choice

The speech given by former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers speculated that

• A) the low numbers of women found in engineering and physics might be due in part to innate differences between men and women.
• B) intrinsic differences between men and women might be due in part to socialization factors.
• C) intrinsic differences between men and women might be due to discrimination.
• D) there exist no differences between men and women that cannot be explained by cognitive theory.
• E) there exist no differences between men and women that cannot be explained by biological mechanisms.

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