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Nancy Hopkins and her colleagues challenged a culture of male dominance at MIT in the 1990s — and won. Kate Zernike’s ‘The Exceptions’ tells us how.

Por: The Boston Globe Life March 10, 2023

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Eighteen years ago, economist Larry Summers, then president of Harvard University and former secretary of the treasury, rose to speak at a conference on women and science at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge. Summers began by sharing his hopes of provoking the audience. Those hopes were quickly realized when he offered his view that “innate” differences might underlie what he described as the “very substantial... + full article



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