The question now is who will feel it necessary to apologize to Larry Summers for making him an icon of male chauvinism? I guess, like Eason Jordan, he dug his own hole by waiting so long to produce the transcript of what he actually said.

Harvard Chief Argued Over Gender Issues

A transcript released Thursday of Harvard President Lawrence Summers' remarks on women in science shows him arguing that intrinsic differences between the sexes, along with family pressure and employer demands, probably play a bigger role than cultural factors and discrimination in explaining why fewer women than men have top science jobs.

Repeatedly emphasizing he was ``guessing,'' attempting to provoke and hoped to be proved wrong by subsequent research, Summers attempted in his Jan. 14 remarks to articulate a general view of how various factors interact to explain why fewer women reach the highest-level science posts....

The transcript appears to support Summers' contention that he did not say women are less capable in science, only that statistics show men have a broader range of science and math test scores -- more fall in both the low and high ends -- just as they do in other categories including weight and propensity toward criminal behavior.