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Radium, Telomeres, and Ribosomes: Glass Ceilings Break in Stockholm
Author(s) -
Weissmann Gerald
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fj.10-0101ufm
Subject(s) - courtesy , art history , law , sociology , media studies , history , political science
Summers offered three possible explanations, in declining order of importance, for the small number of women in high-level positions in science and engineering. The first was the reluctance or inability of women who have children to work 80-hour weeks. Summers [also] said that women do not have the same ”innate ability“ or ”natural ability“ as men in some fields. The Boston Globe, January 2005 (2)