Interesting article in women scientist discussion

Last year, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers caused quite a stir with his comment that innate differences between the genders might explain the number disparity we see.

Here is an interesting article in the Washington Post that follows up a commentary in Nature by scientist Ben Barres (who used to be Barbara Barres).

Aside from the article being interesting, there is the following highly amusing anecdote:

After he underwent a sex change nine years ago at the age of 42, Barres recalled, another scientist who was unaware of it was heard to say, "Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's."