(2005-02-18) — In his ongoing campaign to squelch the controversy over his remarks about why few women rise to the top in the fields of math and science, Harvard President Lawrence Summers said today he now believes that women are as “calculating as any male mathematician.”

Mr. Summers, who faces faculty calls for his resignation, said he was also wrong about the female aptitude for science.

“Clearly, my experience of the past several weeks has shown that women are genetically equipped to engage in careful scrutiny, dissection and identification of even slight deviations,” he said. “Frankly, no further research is needed.”

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