Bloodless Coup

"he was out of the country and could not be reached for comment"

Larry Summers, when asked for a comment about the study discussed in this article.

For 30 years, the report says, women have earned at least 30 percent of the nation's doctorates in social and behavioral sciences, and at least 20 percent of the doctorates in life sciences. Yet they appear among full professors in those fields at less than half those levels. Women from minority groups are "virtually absent," it adds.

The report also dismisses other commonly held beliefs - that women are uncompetitive or less productive, that they take too much time off for their families. Instead, it says, extensive previous research showed a pattern of unconscious but pervasive bias, "arbitrary and subjective" evaluation processes and a work environment in which "anyone lacking the work and family support traditionally provided by a 'wife' is at a serious disadvantage."

And as we've discussed before, Their mistakes become magnified and their successes minimized. Or It was because I was a girl and so I thought that when I failed, I was a failure; if I succeeded, it was because of luck or outside help.

Hat tip to BitchPhD.