March 23, 2005

• Barry Summers

  This was an interesting event earlier this year... there are lots of articles describing it and its 'fallout'... 

  http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/01/17/summers_remarks_on_women_draw_fire?mode=PF

  http://slate.msn.com/id/2112570/

  I'm not going to give my opinion of his comments... yet... 
  Here was one of my favorite excerpts from one of the articles (read them in their entirety first...)

  "In his talk, according to several participants, Summers also used as an example one of his daughters, who as a child was given two trucks in an effort at gender-neutral parenting. Yet she treated them almost like dolls, naming one of them ''daddy truck," and one ''baby truck." "

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