One of benefits of media is also its problem. Reporters filter the news. I hear that President Summers of Harvard University said some things that outraged the listeners at National Bureau of Economic Research. He allegedly said women don't have an aptitude for science. If he did express negativity, he joins the ranks of men such as Albert Einstein who was not very tuned into to women in physics.

Einstein seems to have received a length letter from a woman physicist who recited her travails. Einstein wrote back saying that after reading sixteen pages of her manuscript he found "it stands on its own feet up to a point, and yet it is so typically feminine, by which I mean derivative and steeped in personal resentment.".

Ideas and Opinions. "Education and Educators," p.56. ISBN 0-517-88440-2.

In fairness to Einstein, he said he had similar experiences.

What DID Summers say?

Well, I wanted to read it for myself, but it turns out according to The Crimson that "Summers spoke from a set of notes—not a prepared text—so a transcript is not available."

I really would like to know the exact words.

Matsu