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DUE: No later than: Thursday, April 7 POINTS: Up to 15 LENGTH: five pages (about 1,200 words) Recently, Harvard University President gave a speech in which he suggested that one reason women are underrepresented in science is that they might be biologically "hardwired" to be less adept than males. In class, we discussed Arlie Hochschild's thesis that there are structure reasons that might put female academics at a disadvantage (compared with men). We suggested that social factors and socialization are critical in contributing to women's differential access to social, cultural, and economic capital. Read Summer's speech. Then read Arlie Hochschild's "Inside the Clockwork of a male career" (1993), Pp 125-139 in Kathryn P. Meadow Orlans and Ruth A. Wallace (eds.), Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women 1952-1972. University of Nebraska Press. (Note: Get this from the library or from interliibrary loan) Also Read Kendall's chapter 11 (gender) again to make sure you understand gender issues. Then, compare and contrast Hochschild and Summers. If you were a college administrator trying to expand women in your department, how would each article help you do this, and why? Which is the most useful?
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