Courtesy of Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender (New York: Norton, 2010).
After demonstrating the weakness of the evidence allegedly supporting a link between fetal testosterone and cognitive performance, Fine writes on p. 129:
And so it seems as though fetal testosterone has become the explanation of choice for gender inequality in science. In a 2005 conference on diversifying the science and engineering workforce, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, controversially suggested that women might be intrinsically less capable, on average, of high-level science. Fetal testosterone was rushed to the scene of the mishap. In the New Republic, Steven Pinker ...
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