Eileen Pollack
Larry Summers ‘may have done a service to women’ with his sexist remarks
A decade ago, then-Harvard president Larry Summers ignited a firestorm when he suggested women weren’t predisposed to the sciences. Eileen Pollack, author of a book on the brouhaha, credits the widely castigated Summers for at least raising the question — and says society still isn’t encouraging women in key fields.