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 | | From: | MCP | | Subject: | IWF Defends Statements of Harvard President | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:35:57 GMT |
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 | http://www.iwf.org/articles/article_detail.asp?ArticleID=715
IWF Defends Statements of Harvard President
1/19/2005
Contact: Louise Filkins
Phone: (202) 419-1820
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Independent Women's Forum today defends statements by
Harvard President Lawrence Summers. Summers suggested the possibility that
innate differences between men and women contribute to there being fewer
women in science and engineering at colleges and universities.
"President Summers is being vilified for telling the truth about women,"
said Nancy Pfotenhauer, president and CEO of the Independent Women's Forum.
"Women have children and choose to raise those children and neurobiology
shows us women are better in certain fields than men and tend to gravitate
towards those fields they do better in. Men, likewise, gravitate to fields
they excel in."
Summers made these "controversial" remarks last Friday at an academic
conference and has since come under fire from some feminists groups.
"Many studies have shown although women are typically better than men at
verbal tasks and men are typically better than women at spatial tasks, they
score equally on intelligence tests," added Pfotenhauer. "The hard-line
feminists choose to diminish these facts that don't fit into their
politically correct agenda. Instead of embracing these differences, they
attack the motivations of the messenger, in this case President Summers."
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Men are everywhere that matters!
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