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To: LindyBill who wrote (109382)	4/15/2005 10:50:49 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793639

We both know what these kinds of "studies" will result in, don't we, John? Harvard, et al, will hire hard science female PHD's who should not be tenured at their level to make up for the gender unbalance. There is a great deal you don't understand about this process, Bill, but one of the most critical is the degree to which, at similar positional levels, women are actually better than men. Not worse. It simply takes more smarts and more effort to advance in academia if you are female than male. There are important incidents which underline this, most particularly the process by which Theda Skocpol eventually returned to the Harvard faculty after being turned down for tenure. But anyone with eyes to see in academia can tell stories of women who were turned down for tenure and/or promotion when less able but more politically favored men received them. I've got no brief for either version of Summers. He was a mistake when Harvard hired him and remains a mistake. Bollinger, the other major figure still in the game at the end, would have been a much better appointment.