You're completely misconstruing what Larry Summers and the memo's author said. The memo's author outlined some gender differences, and offered suggestions base

You're completely misconstruing what Larry Summers and the memo's author said. The memo's author outlined some gender differences, and offered suggestions based on these differences to make working at Google more appealing to women. Here's the excerpt from Larry Summer's speech that the ignorant masses and agenda-driven feminists have misconstrued to confirm their biases and advance their agenda: > "So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination. I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them." He is not saying that women are biologically less capable of pursuing math and science than men. [1] http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber.php http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber....