[mathprof]

Not your typical Harvard professor:

"I've had a lifelong interest in women," Mr. Mansfield purrs in his smooth classical-radio-announcer voice when I ask why he decided to embark on his manliness project. Joking aside, he explains that "I always wanted to write a book on the woman question, and one reason, perhaps the main reason, I see is that we are embarked on a great experiment in our society, something very radical: to make the status of men and women equal, or, better to say, the same."

Mr. Mansfield's contention that women and men are not the same is now widely supported by social scientists. The core of his definition of manliness--"confidence in a risky situation"--is not so far from that of biologists and sociologists, who find men to be more abstract in their thinking and aggressive in their behavior than women, who are more contextual in their thinking and conciliatory in their behavior.
 

[freespirited]

Mr. Mansfield's contention that women and men are not the same is now widely supported by social scientists.

That must have been an editing mistake at the WSJ. Should read widely suppressed by social scientists.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Duplicate of http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589880/posts

[Chgogal]

Very interesting article. Booked marked!

"I see is that we are embarked on a great experiment in our society, something very radical: to make the status of men and women equal, or, better to say, the same."

I'm waiting for someone someday to say that the status and roles of men and women are equally important and equally treasured. :)

[mcvey]

I know that on FR tenure is often attacked. But, as a conservative professor, let me tell you: tenure is the only reason Mansfield and I have jobs. Take away tenure and do you really think liberal administrators and liberal faculty will keep those who manifest conservative tendencies around?

I can't be shut up. (Of course, administrators can find ways to squeeze a conservative.) And that is good for the school I am at--whether they like it or not.

So, if there was ever any chance that there might be a balance on campus, I would say tenure is not a good idea--but there isn't. Getting rid of tenure and the rules and regulations that accompany it would only make campuses more liberal than they are now and leave conservatives with no legal recourse.

McVey

[BooksForTheRight.com]

Going to major online bookseller. If this book is being trashed by militant man-haters I will order it.....

No reviews yet. Wait till some man-hater posts it on a rant-site.

[RightWingAtheist]

I noticed a curious thing last year regarding the inconsitency of the anti-Summers brigade, even among scientists. Biologist and raving far-left moonbat PZ Myers (webmaster of the scientifically-sound but politically-boneheaded Pharyngula blog) called Summers a "moron" and an "ignoramus". Discrimination is 100% responsible for any sexual disparities in the sciences, bellowed Myers, and nurture thoroughly trumps nature in intelligence. He finished up by suggesting that women everywhere kick Summers in a certain part of his anatomy. Cosmologist and fellow far-left blogger Sean Carroll (formerly of Preposterous Universe, now at Cosmic Variance) said that Summers' statement was so stupid, that only an economist could make it, which says more about Carroll's ignorance of economics than Summers' knowledge of biology. But what happened when Paul Krugman said that that the reason most scientists are liberals is that conservatives are too stupid to be scientists? Hey, that's just the way it is, said Myers. Good academics are naturallyliberal, declared Carroll. Now, I don't any statistics immediately at hand, but what is the percentage of conservatives in science like compared to the percentage of women scientists? In all likehood, there are far more conservative scientists than there homosexual scientists, but would we ever see the likes of Myers or Carroll declare that gays and lesbians aren't naturally inclined towards science? (one curious thing I've noticed is that lesbian scientists seem to be more numerous than gay male scientists).