The Right Rebuttal
By: Shannon Laughlin
Before taking this class, I had heard of Larry Summers, former President of Harvard, but did not know much about him. After all, I was only in third grade when he triggered an uproar in the math and science comm…
While reading through Spelke and Grace’s chapter in Why Aren’t More Women in Science? I found myself wondering if this dream of an essay could possibly be too good to be true. I believe I had this reaction because of the large amount of …
Worldwide attention, especially from females, turned to Marissa Mayer when she announced in early September 2015 that she only took 2-week maternity leave. Young women startled at her decision because the short leave is unusual for women after giving b…
alternatively titled: “How Many Discussions does it take to Challenge an Assumption?”
by Lillie Mucha
Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace respond to the debate over Lawrence Summers’ comments with a deep understanding of the assumptio…
I distinctly remember the first time I sat down to take an official SAT test. Water bottle and snack on the floor next to me, calculator under my chair, four perfectly sharpened pencils sitting neatly at the top of my desk. In all the superficial ways,…
When one sees a baby human, one’s response is typically along the line of “Aw, what a cute, precious baby! What’s the name?”
Insert societally-defined boy’s name here.
“Wow, he sure is handsome!”
Insert societally-d…
What if I asked about your attitude toward Lawrence Summer’s address that women’s innate reasons cause their absence in science? Well, the issue has been debated again and again that even for the same argument, there are lots of different explanati…
To all the ladies reading this blog: Save the energy/time and give up. We will have a better chance in succeeding in something we are actually good at than in something that we are forcing ourselves to believe is true. Instead of bothering to read thes…
The fourth essay featured in the book, Why Aren’t There More Women in Science? is titled “Sex, Math, and Science” and is by Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace. Spelke and Grace discuss three main points throughout their essay, sex differences…
In “Sex, Math, and Science,” Elizabeth Spelke and Ariel Grace claim that there are no differences between the mathematical abilities of men and women; however, there are gender schemas that discourage women from joining the field. When I was a chi…