1. “ Despite reports to the contrary, I did not say, and I do not believe, that girls are intellectually less able than boys, …. I have learned a great deal from all that I have heard in the last few days…. I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women.” (Letter from President Summers on women and science
http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/women... ).

2. What Summers said precisely at the January 14 National Bureau of Economic Research conference (NBER) on “Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce: Women, Underrepresented Minorities, and their S. & E. Careers,” is unclear, as the conference was closed and Summers did not prepare written remarks (Harvard president raises firestorm http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2005/01/21/...).

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