After Reading This Chapter, What Do You Think of Former

question 29

Essay

After reading this chapter, what do you think of former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers's comments about why there are so few women in engineering and physics? If you were a college president would you consider it important to change this gender imbalance, and how would you go about it?

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