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Welcome to a new form, of a new forum, for a new course.

Liz McCormack and I are both very much looking forward to seeing what we can discover, this semester, about the intersecting matters of gender and science. One form that exploration will take is our informal conversation in this public space: a space to put your questions, and throw out ideas that others might find useful, and to find useful ideas and questions from others. We'll post a topic or question each week for you to respond to, but you're free to write about anything that occurs to you, as often as you like, and to respond to other people's responses as well.

Our first topic was ignited two years ago, with Larry Summers' provocative comments, and has continued in many other forums, like the recent Pinker and Spelke debate on "The Science of Gender and Science": How do the sex differences between men and women relate to the careers of women in science? What has been your experience in this regard? In what way do you find the evidence used by Pinker and Spelke--or any of the other writers we're reading now--useful? Might the question be asked differently from the way they frame it?