"Impediments to Change: Revisiting the Women in Science Question"

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To many women scientists, the promise of equity can seem like a receding mirage. Why have the advances been so slow, and why have the terms of the discussion changed so little? Is this because the scientific data remain inadequate, because political investments are so intense, or because the very questions are ill-posed?

Cosponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Speakers

Mahzarin Banaji
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor and 2004–2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Nancy Hopkins
Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Evelyn Fox Keller
2004–2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and professor of the history and philosophy of science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(moderator)

Mariangela Lisanti
President of Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe and Class of 2005, Harvard College

Charles Rosenberg
Professor of the history of science and Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University

Elizabeth S. Spelke
Professor of psychology and codirector of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University