Good grief.
1. Larry Summers resigned because the faculty was tired of him micromanaging them. He was not popular. As an example, he overturned tenure decisions for humanities professors that made their way up to him because the research did not pass what an economist considers good research. The whole what he said about women at the NBER was irrelevant to his resignation (except to the extent that at least one of the tenures he overturned was that of a woman). The controversy about the Allston campus, for example, was a much bigger deal. He just didn't play politics well and thought his decisions were always right.
2. He DIDN'T cite research. He was completely and totally unaware of any of the work done by psychologists on the subject. If you read the transcript, all he did was offer a suggestion that this whole nature vs. nurture thing should be looked into. Eventually people brought out Steven Pinker's work but that work is by no means uncontroversial. There is an enormous line of literature on the "nurture" side that you can read about in a book by Virginia Valian if you are so inclined.
3. I can't believe this garbage is resurfacing on the internet after all these years. And does Bostonian think about ANYTHING other than proving how men are superior to women biologically? Seriously, every single post is about a boy genius, testosterone being superior, boys not needing to show their work, affirmative action destroying the world, etc. etc. etc. It makes for an unwelcoming environment.
