In a keynote speech at Harvard University President Lawrence Summers asserts that innate gender differences largely explained women’s underrepresentation in science fields.
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2005: In a keynote speech at a conference on diversity, Harvard University President Lawrence Summers asserts that innate gender differences–not sexism– largely explained women’s underrepresentation in science fields.
THE TIMELINE
How we got Here:
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2025
Columbia University complies with the Trump administration’s demands to put the School of Middle Eastern Studies under receivership.
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2005
In a keynote speech at Harvard University President Lawrence Summers asserts that innate gender differences largely explained women’s underrepresentation in science fields.
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1971
A Virginia lawyer, Lewis J. Powell, writes a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, exhorting big business to purge leftists from university teaching positions.
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1970
A second attempt by the University of California’s Board of Regents to fire Angela Davis from her UCLA teaching job fails.
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1968
Black Student Union leads protests at San Francisco State University that produce the College of Ethnic Studies.
