March 05, 2008
Math is hard
Two dispatches this week from the “is our girls and women learning?” wars. Elizabeth Weil writes about the nascent movement for single-sex education in public schools, and Christina Hoff Sommers takes on efforts to socially engineer the equal representation of women in science and engineering PhD programs. (Charlotte Allen’s “Women are dumb” doesn’t make the cut.) These arguments over the...
February 21, 2005
February 20, 2005
Designing a sex-fair tenure system
Half-time assistant professorships, with each year counting as half a year on the tenure clock.
