Rekindling the gender-bias debate

摘要

It is almost five years since Harvard University's then-president Lawrence Summers made his controversial remarks about the innate differences between men's and women's skills in science and maths. Now, a book is reigniting the debate with equally contentious views about why female scientists have problems advancing in academia. The Science on Women in Science (AEI Press; 2009) is a collection of nine essays assembled and edited by former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers. The book's aim, says Sommers, is to convince policy-makers and others that gender bias may not be the primary cause of the under-representation of women in science.