Nancy Hopkins is an American biologist at MIT, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In January 2005, she provoked a public controversy by leaking comments that Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, had made at a closed economics conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also conducted a study on gender inequality at MIT that brought about corrective actions from then-president Charles M. Vest.
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Nancy Hopkins is an American biologist at MIT, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In January 2005, she provoked a public controversy by leaking comments that Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, had made at a closed economics conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also conducted a study on gender inequality at MIT that brought about corrective actions from then-president Charles M. Vest.
Hopkins said she had to leave the lecture because if she hadn't, she would have "either blacked out or thrown up." She also said that "when [Mr. Summers] started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill."
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